Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. He has, in the past year, proved his honesty and integrity by having both popular and unpopular legislation passed...
Harvard recently joined Yale in dropping Navy from its future schedules, and Saturday's victory was particularly relishing to the Crimson and unwelcome to Navy. Annapolis has long been unpopular for its overheated courts and wildly partisan crowds. Last year Yale charged it with rigging the lineup...
Assignments by Lot. That unavoidable but unpopular concomitant of any press tour, the reporter's pool (one man covering for the group), was settled by lot. The lucky pool men would fly in the presidential plane on a rotating basis, one reporter and one cameraman for each leg of the tour, others to follow the President on the ground wherever all 84 could not go. Hagerty considerately arranged for the press plane to get pool copy quickly: by radio from Eisenhower's plane or, in the event of poor radio reception, handed around, freshly mimeographed aloft...
...concentrate on issues which emphasize his campaigning ability, his television sex appeal, rather than his political statesmanship. Furthermore, the positions he takes in such a situation tend to be chosen on crowd-pleasing content, for, campaigning to show "Nixon can't win," he himself cannot afford to take an unpopular stand...
...present system of nominations, however, one can expect a full blitz of winning Rockefeller smiles and dark "Nixon can't win" statements. Rockefeller has shown as governor that he can indeed courageously undertake necessary but momentarily unpopular actions. He has shown genuine leadership. Such leadership would be very welcome relief from the usual campaign inanities, and restore much of the lustre Rockefeller has lost behind his flashing smile...