Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vermont's three electoral votes may not bear a heavy impact on the national election, but a great many congressmen and citizens are looking to the state to see if it is fatal for a public official to take an outspoken position on issues that make him politically vulnerable. The focus is on the re-election campaign of Rep. William H. Meyer, whose championing of the peace issue has left him open for a smear-job along all too familiar lines. Another victory for him this year in conservative Vermont would be the peak in a series of surprises...
...letter to the major state newspapers announcing his candidacy for the Democratic Senatorial nomination early in 1958, party leaders were, to say the least, taken aback. When election returns subsequently showed that on $2,000 and the disarmament issue William Meyer had broken the 104-year Republican hold on Vermont's Congressional seat, there was a good deal of incredulous blinking. And when Meyer loomed up in the House calling for a profound re-examination of the government's Cold War efforts, the Congress and the whole country began stirring in response to his new and disturbing ideas. Some...
...this election were being held two years from now, I don't think they could give us much trouble," Rep. Meyer explained this weekend, in illustrating how the times were catching up with concepts which only recently were considered "ahead of the times." His opponent, Vermont's Governor Stafford, who had ceased criticizing Meyer's stand on atomic-testing, has now found it expedient to slacken his attack on the Congressman's position on China. Before large crowds who have grown increasingly curious over just what the fate of the world does hinge on, Meyer has explained, "Our real problem...
...surprise of some local Democrats, a half-hour film of the Houston meeting appeared in prime time on eight California TV stations, distributed by Democratic headquarters in Washington. It was shown three times in the State of Washington. It appeared in Colorado, Wyoming, Minnesota. Michigan, New York, Vermont. It has run again and again across the South...
Carloads of Tocsin members will invade Vermont the next three weekends to campaign for William E. Meyer, Democratic candidate for the United States Houses of Representatives...