Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other vice-presidential heads bobbed up with alarming frequency. Bobby Kennedy, to hear the pollsters tell it, was the popular favorite. Then there was Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, Montana's Senator Mike Mansfield, Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd, and a score of others, including Humphrey's fellow Minnesota Senator, Eugene McCarthy...
Throughout the week, Bobby maintained a solemn or at times sad look, whether watching Johnson and Humphrey accept the convention's nominations or attending a jampacked reception in his honor. The affair was hosted by New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, who had only reluctantly backed Bobby for the New York Democratic senatorial nomination...
Once ashore, newsmen could scarcely believe their notes: Barry Goldwater willing to negotiate with Red China? Press Aide Paul Wagner hurriedly put in a radiophone call to Barry for further clarification. He came back and told the confused newsmen that Goldwater merely meant that the U.S. should be ready to threaten the Red Chinese if they continued to supply Viet Cong guerrillas-telling them that "if they didn't stop, then you would blow up a bridge or show some other sort of force." Wagner explained that Barry had told him on the phone: "I'm not really...
...less forgettable moment came when NBC decided to ignore the podium during New York City Mayor Robert Wagner's speech seconding L.B.J. Instead, the network turned breathlessly to Sander Vanocur as he buttonholed David Dubinsky, boss of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. At last came Vanocur's question to Dubinsky: "Did you know that Mrs. Hubert Humphrey makes all her own clothes?" Over to Huntley-Brinkley...
...many respects, it all made good sense to the Democrats. They have not elected a Democratic U.S. Senator since Herbert Lehman-another candidate with a big name-turned the trick in 1950. Wagner realized that there is no really big-name Democrat in the state with the ability to give Ken Keating a tough fight. Bobby Kennedy may have plenty of opposition among New York Democrats, but he is undeniably a big name...