Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Quincy Adams rather than James Monroe, 1820; Preston Parks of Tennessee voted for Strom Thurmond instead of Harry Truman, 1948; W. F. Turner of Alabama voted for a circuit judge instead of Adlai Stevenson, 1956; Henry D. Irwin of Oklahoma ignored his pledge to Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd...
...from Indian graves and drawn from 29 public and private collections (see color opposite). Last week the exhibit finished a month's run at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts; it will open at Chicago's Art Institute in February and move to Richmond's Virginia Museum in March...
...some limited campaigning for Hubert Humphrey. He starred at a couple of fundraisers to offset the $3.5 million deficit left from Robert's presidential primary campaign. Gradually his humor and sprightliness returned. But in front of the fireplace in his new home in Virginia, into which he moved with his wife Joan and their three children last March, he appeared distant and dreamy when the subject of his future came up. Frequently, the talk centered on the Senate and his role in it. He was generally pleased with his performance so far, he told one friend. But: "I want...
...boat, lest the boat be rocked when you have hold of the tiller"), the Senate Democratic leadership would consist of well-liked, if rather bland Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and three conservatives: Long, Georgia's Richard Russell, who was to be named president pro tempore, and West Virginia's Robert Byrd, who was to be retained as chairman of the Democratic Conference. Of the four, only Long was vulnerable...
...Nixon campaign aides will take second-echelon White House posts. John Whitaker, 41, a former oil-company geologist who handled scheduling for the candidate, will become secretary to the Cabinet. Harry Flemming, 28, who was Nixon-Agnew co-chairman in Virginia and is now helping to recruit sub-Cabinet officials, will become a special assistant for personnel and liaison man to the Civil Service Commission. Flemming owns four weekly newspapers in Northern Virginia and is vice president of a Washington electronics company. His father, Arthur Flemming, was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight Eisenhower...