Word: winning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggesting that Senator John Kennedy will need 761 votes to win the presidential nomination but that Senator Lyndon Johnson will need only 756 [Oct. 26]? Does this result from discrimination or a handicapping system...
...into two parts-one for the general press, one for TV. The technique had worked well enough back East, but the Angelenos would have none of it. As the TV crews noisily packed up and marched out in a mass huff, Rockefeller observed wryly: "A lesson in how to win friends and influence people...
...Vice President for eight years persisted, Rockefeller turned on his tormentors and snapped: "Don't go selecting a President who's got to be propped up." Then he followed up with a challenge: "You'll know before the convention who's going to win...
...Governor Mark O. Hatfield, who, he said, would make a "wonderful" Vice President. And his feinting attacks moved closer to Dick Nixon. Following a speech at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, a student asked Rockefeller if he thought Nixon could get enough Democratic and independent support to win the presidency. Rocky, for the first time, expressed some oblique doubts. "I wouldn't know the answer to that," he solemnly told his 8,500 listeners...
...Rocky flew back toward New York -with brief but enthusiastic stopovers in Seattle and Boise, Idaho-he left no doubt that he was looking for a fight. Even the most devoted followers of Dick Nixon could no longer assume that their man can win without first meeting Rockefeller's challenge...