Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad terms, the differences among the three candidates were tangible enough to judge what a majority of voters went for-and against. The trend was obviously conservative, away from the omniscient federalism of the Great Society, toward the decentralized approach espoused by the Republicans and, more vaguely, by Wallace. White voters seemed to be attracted by Nixon's relatively tough stand on the law-and-order issue and leary of Humphrey's rather orthodox liberal approach. Because so little light showed between Nixon and Humphrey on Viet Nam, it is unlikely that the war played a large part...
...37th President, regardless of his party, could hardly have expected the initial bliss that most new White House tenants enjoy on Capitol Hill. The political atmosphere has been too roiled, public opinion too combustible. Partly for this reason, partly because he fell so far short of a popular majority, Nixon will probably attempt to give a non-partisan patina to his Administration. Otherwise he cannot hope to rally the public support and Democratic cooperation he will need...
Social Remedies. At the same time, the Republicans, even with their man in the White House, still have a long way to go to establish themselves as a strong, full partner in the two-party system. This they failed to do even with the benefit of two Eisenhower landslides in the 1950s. Despite their comeback in the congressional and gubernatorial elections of 1966, despite their gains at the statehouse and Senate levels this year, the Republicans must drive their roots still deeper. And they must do it at a time when the electorate seems more independent than ever...
...running mate, Curtis LeMay, carried Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia. Nowhere in the industrial Northern states did he wrench away a massive blue-collar vote. In Boston's working-class districts, for example, Humphrey tallied 74% of the vote to Wallace's 24%. In poorer white sections of Detroit, pre-election Wallace partisans flocked back to the Democratic Party, joining Negroes, suburban whites and elderly voters to swing Michigan's 21 electoral votes to Humphrey by 151,-000 votes. Many Wallaceites also defected in Southern and Border states upon which he had counted. "They all talked...
...question about Richard M. Nixon − in fact, the question that would be asked of any man about to be tested in the White House-is whether he is capable of coming close to that ideal. He faces the immensely difficult problem of reconciling an alienated left and an uneasy right, of bringing together Negroes and young people, Wallace followers and middle-class Americans who feel an ever more crushing burden of taxes. He has yet to persuade a great number of citizens that he is wholly to be trusted. His narrow victory may complicate the task. "The problem will...