Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...using Running Mate Spiro Agnew to do most of the tough talking on the gut issue, Nixon has managed to strike an aloof stance. This tactic may well win the Republican ticket a good number of votes, but it could also inflict incalculable moral damage upon...
...Democratic Party will obviously need all of O'Brien's talents if it is to win in November. For more than three years, Lyndon Johnson has allowed the National Committee to fall into disrepair. While O'Brien's predecessor, John Bailey, languished at the committee headquarters ten blocks from the White House, the President in his personalistic style performed virtually all of his political maneuvers through members of his own Texas clique...
...that Wallace's strength will soon ebb (see following story), they are coppering their bets, talking less now about a "Southern strategy" and more about a "big-state strategy." Even if Wallace does take Southern states that the Republicans had hitherto counted on, they reason, Nixon can still win handily by capturing just a couple of the big states he lost...
Though he is already on the ballot in 46 states, the ex-Governor will need more than a magic bottle to win. But he is still stirring up enough excitement to worry both Republicans and Democrats, with neither party sure which one he will damage more. At this point, it appears as though he will draw support from Nixon in the South and take away Humphrey voters in the North, where many Democratic blue-collar workers may switch to Wallace's American Independent Party...
...next two years. Then, in mid-June of 1965, he was called in from the bullpen to relieve against the Boston Red Sox. McLain suddenly found what he calls "my rhythm, my groove." He struck out seven straight hitters to tie an American League record. He went on to win eight games in a row, and wound up the year with a mark...