Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. There are also seven states where ballots have a separate section for the presidential election but permit the voter to choose a straight ticket for all other offices. They are Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin...
...Vermont: In his second race against Republican Winston L. Prouty, 58, who won by 5,364 votes in 1958, Democrat Frederick J. Fayette, 53, has eight things going for him. One is Barry Goldwater, and the other seven are Fayette daughters (he has eleven children in all). The girls are stumping for him, plucking guitars and singing Hello, Daddy. But Prouty has the edge...
...campaign trail, President Johnson is all things to all people. Whether discussing education in the humanities at Brown University, the need for a reasonable international stance in Manchester, New Hampshire, or the contributions of Vermont's Republican Senators to a bi-partisan foreign policy, he seemed to touch on the point of most concern to each group. With his web of homespun philosophy, face-to-face political common sense talk, and emotion-charged pleading, he is the embodiment of the great American ethic of the boy-who-grows-up-to-be-President...
...Vermont was the first State admitted to the Union after the original thirteen . . . Vermont drafted the first State consitution to forbid slavery...
...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...