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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans for Democratic Action, warned last week, "this disaster could, indeed, mean the death and burial of the Democratic Party." Few other Democrats share that gloomy view, but the war could cost a covey of doves their Senate seats in 1968. With 23 Democratic seats at stake v. only eleven for the G.O.P., the Democrats' 64-36 Senate majority could be drastically trimmed...
...strong hold on the South-and thanks to a bonus rule adopted at the 1964 G.O.P. Convention, giving extra delegates to states that went for Goldwater or elected a Republican Governor or Senator, the South will have more votes than any other section at the convention (356 v. 355 for the East, 352 for the Midwest, 262 for the West, eight for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands). Nixon could well enter the convention with 450 of the 667 votes needed for nomination. In addition, he has scores of lOUs from the 1966 campaign, when he traveled 30,000 miles...
...John Chafee, Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke and New York's Senator Jacob Javits, the only one who has publicly been courting the post. If he continues to perform as effectively as he has to date in the near-impossible job of running New York City, Mayor John V. Lindsay, 45, will surely rate consideration...
...think he would make the best candidate the party could put up. Jack Kennedy admitted after his eyelash victory over Nixon in 1960 that Rocky might have beaten him. With Lyndon Johnson in low esteem among many Democrats and among the independents, who now comprise 27% of U.S. voters (v. 46% for the Democrats, 27% Republicans), Rockefeller could probably collect more of their votes than any other Republican...
Others include: Simon S. Kuznets, Kenneth S. Lynn '45, Bernard Malamud, Juan Marichal, Frederick Merk, Barrington Moore Jr., Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Daniel P. Moynihan, Henry A. Murray '15, William W. Nash Jr. '50, David E. Owen, Alwin M. Pappenheimer Jr.'29, Thomas F. Pettigrew, Edward M. Purcell, William V. O. Quine, Eduard F. Sekler, Seymour Slive, F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, Michael L. Walzer, and Robert L. Wolff...