Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election lacked sufficient clarity for both parties. The Democrats were not beaten so badly as to make thoroughgoing internal overhaul unavoidable. The Republicans did not win easily or widely enough to be comfortable in victory. George Wallace was deflated, but not totally demolished. Thus the outlook is for more turbulence, at least until the electorate gets a chance to speak more unequivocally...
Meanwhile, both parties will be seeking new foundations on which to enlarge their strength. They will have a common target among the young. Both parties must seek to reclaim the Deep South and to win back the disenchanted on the right and left elsewhere as well. In the process, the Republicans and Democrats might find some of the social remedies that both major candidates promised when they repeatedly pledged themselves to lead the nation and re-store national unity...
...states proved to be New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Texas and California. By dawn, it became clear that Humphrey could not win a clear victory, but could deadlock the election if he could win two or three of those states; California was absolutely crucial. New Jersey only went to Nixon with a big assist from Wallace, who drew 250,000 votes in the Garden State. Ohio, originally regarded as safely in Nixon's vault, teetered all night, finally fell into the Republican column. So did California, which fell to Nixon by a margin of perhaps 1%, at least in part...
...much time in the last campaign on substance and too little time on appearance. I paid too much attention to what I was going to say, and too little to how I would look." Slightly cynical, perhaps, but by reversing the emphasis, Nixon did, after all, manage to win...
...weeks passed, he grew progressively more abrasive. At times, except for the accent, he might have been mistaken for Wallace himself, making use of such Wallace-like expressions as "phony intellectual." In the end, though Agnew may have hurt Nixon overall, he appears to have helped him win critically important Border states...