Word: williams
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Ohio. Law and order is a big issue in Ohio this year, and it helped send Ohio Attorney General William Saxbe, 52, to the Senate. A moderate Republican, Saxbe used the issue handily against Democratic Opponent John J. Gilligan, who had criticized draconian court handling of Cincinnati rioters. Saxbe also promoted jobs, better education, clean air and water, and "our last Viet...
...Charles L. Terry Jr., at 68 the nation's oldest Governor, was defeated by Republican Russell Peterson, 51, who surged ahead after Terry suffered a heart attack. A civic activist and Du Pont employee, Peterson is a rather dull, determined organizer. Arizona's one-eyed Republican Governor Jack Williams, 59, ran a repeat of his 1966 defeat of ex-Governor Sam Goddard, aided by a liquor-board scandal uncovered in the debris of Goddard's earlier regime. Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, 60, who was not favored to retain the governorship following a divorce earlier this year, managed to trounce Democrat...
...that the loser has refused to pay a "price" for winning. Henry Clay, who spent 20 years trying to occupy the White House, finally produced that famous sour grape: "I would rather be right than President." A sweeter reaction, "Now I can see my family," was used by William Scranton in 1964 and Nelson Rockefeller in 1968. How would the Great Scorer judge Eugene McCarthy? After losing the Indiana and Nebraska primaries, he sent no congratulatory words to the winners. His grudging endorsement of Hubert Humphrey was delayed on "principle," was issued only after the Vice President approached Nixon...
Loser statements are often superfluous as well as dangerous. Often the less said the better: losers who seek an audience court disbelief in their sincerity and should perhaps just carry on in private. As William Butler Yeats once...
...reminded of the drunk who, when he had been thrown down the stairs of a club for the third time, gathered himself up, and said, 'I am on to those people. They don't want me in there.' " -William Jennings Bryan, after losing his third try for the presidency...