Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while he had one pledged delegate, 666 short of the total he would need to win the Republican presidential nomination. Then he released the one he had. His national campaign staff numbers seven. After Robert Kennedy's murder, he was assigned a few Secret Service guards, which prompted a Congressman's quip: "It's the biggest crowd he's had this campaign." Not even his wife accompanies him on his campaign. Yet he persists. He is Harold Stassen, who quadrennially offers up his obsession on the public altar-where it is scorned...
Implacable as a Tank. "I've always believed in issues rather than partisanship," he says. But the issues he espoused-a blend of mild liberalisms-have long since been appropriated by candidates who sometimes win. "It's been a lifetime commitment to do everything I could to secure peace," he says, emphasizing his role as a U.S. delegate to the 1945 San Francisco conference that forged the United Nations, and as Ike's Mutual Security Administrator and chief disarmament adviser. Even as he recalls such distinguished assignments, he unconsciously reminds his audiences that his day is past...
...deceptively reasonable tones, Stassen retorts: "I realize the small power I have within the G.O.P., but I have confidence I can win in November." He is used to derision, he says. "I steel myself. I've been in the center and out, and back. This is part of my life." It is an utterly quixotic part, at best, and scarcely rational, but he is determined to play it to its lonely...
...superb politician, De Gaulle formulated the strategy that he thought would win-and it did. He sought to polarize the French electorate, forcing the moderate voters away from the left and into the Gaullist ranks. Toward that end, the Gaullists capitalized on the average Frenchman's fear of chaos by showing special films that depicted the rampaging mobs and wanton destruction in Paris' Left Bank riots. Much of what the Gaullists said and showed was true enough. France had indeed been on the verge of a breakdown, and if De Gaulle had stepped aside instead of asserting...
...prosecution never established that the shorts were Miller's, or mentioned that they seemed too small for him. Not until 1963, seven hours before Miller's oft-postponed date with the executioner, did his lawyers win permission from a federal court judge for an analysis of the shorts by a defense chemist. No blood was found on the twelve threads the chemist was given for analysis, and he reported that the red marks were only paint. Prosecutor Ramsey then admitted that he had known all along that there was paint on the pants...