Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atlanta Computer Programmer Dan Roberson says: "Almost everyone I know who's against Goldwater is afraid he'll lead the country into war. It's by far their biggest reason for being against him." Says a Republican physician from Vermont: "I don't like President Johnson's history of political dealings, but I just can't vote for Goldwater. The man is sincere, but he is dangerous in this day and age. I don't think he knows what he is going to say next, and you can't run a country...
After hearing of the stalemate Monday afternoon, Vermont's Governor Hoff expressed to a group of FDP lobbyists the consensus of many Northern moderates: "Don't you recognize your responsibility to the Party and the country? When you're up against a Goldwater, you sacrifice for party harmony or lose not only Mississippi but the nation, maybe the world. I'm for you morally, but if you push this to the floor I'll vote against...
After hearing of the stalemate Monday afternoon, Vermont's Governor Hoff expressed to a group of FDP lobbyists the consensus of many Northern moderates: "Don't you recognize your responsibility to the Party and the country? When you're up against a Goldwater, you sacrifice for party harmony or lose not only Mississippi but the nation, maybe the world. I'm for you morally, but if you push this to the floor I'll vote against...
...jostling in the aisle, the blind militance of the Mississippi "seat-in," may have dismayed some Vermont politicians and the suburban television audience. But there was another, a back audience crowded around television sets in a thousand grey shacks across rural Mississippi, watching intently as close friends and neighbors stood up to white authority--and got away with...
...ments may also have inflicted permanent damage to the image of a one-party press. Already in Lyndon Johnson's trophy room, for instance, are such normally Republican-sympathizing papers as the Kansas City Star, the Chicago Sun-Times, and three of the eight dailies in once Republican Vermont...