Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DURING THE Wisconsin primary last March, I drove out to Milwaukee along with two other CRIMSON reporters to cover Senator McCarthy's campaign. It was during that strange time after New Hampshire when Kennedy had just come in and Johnson wasn't yet out, and the bitter clarity of our own relationship to the nation at war was melting like the dirty snow beside the highway...
Nixon was in Wisconsin too. He was running against no one, Rockefeller having dropped out a week previously; the point of Nixon's campaign in the state was to prove that Republicans liked him enough to vote for him even when it didn't make any difference. If Dick could come out of Wisconsin in good shape, said the Nixon people, the way would be pretty well clear to Miami Beach, and so they were spending half a million dollars to get the vote out, and bringing in Mr. Nixon himself for two swings through the state...
...after we arrived in Milwaukee, and I decided to go along to see what it was like. This was well before anyone was talking about learning to live with Nixon, and to me the Nixon campaign appeared as a dark crusade of the cynical right. The point of the Wisconsin primary was to give McCarthy a chance to beat Johnson, and it seemed absurd that Nixon had even come to Wisconsin...
Some Heat. Many influential conservation groups, among them the Sierra Club, are waiting to learn more of Hickel's views before taking a stand on his appointment. So are conservationist members of the Senate Interior Committee: Democrats Walter Mondale of Minnesota, William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, South Dakota's George McGovern and Lee Metcalf of Montana...
...that he set a style which encouraged many authentic upper-class Wasps to take heart and to run for political office. John D. Rockefeller IV was one. He was followed by George Bush in Texas, William L. Saltonstall and John Winthrop Sears in Massachusetts and Bronson La Follette in Wisconsin. "In previous times, you had to be born in a log cabin to be elected to office," notes John Jay McCloy, who has been called the board chairman of the U.S. Wasp Establishment. "Now, to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth often means you have a distinct...