Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harder"-in Hebrew. Posters announced: "God Isn't Dead-He's Just Lonely-But He Might Commit Suicide March 12th. It's Up to You." That same sense of last stand desperation was echoed in a primary-eve plaint: "Over 40%, we go on to Wisconsin; 30%, back to school; 20%, we burn our draft cards; 10%, we leave the country." When the results came in, it was on to Wisconsin, where last week a hard-core cadre of 300 New Hampshire veterans, many of them AWOL from classes, deplaned to begin organizing...
...Senator Kennedy says today that he'll come into Wisconsin...
...have to wait and see. I could have used help in New Hampshire. I kind of listened and waited. But I did do all right. I think I can win in Wisconsin without help, but I'm certainly not going to turn down help from any of my colleagues in the Senate...
...earlier ones-including Massachusetts, which he might have won easily-and his opponents have a head start in others. Partly for this reason and partly because of his desire to display "harmony" with Eugene McCarthy, Kennedy arrived at a curious strategy. He will support McCarthy in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, but run against him in Nebraska, Oregon, California and perhaps elsewhere. Prospects in the more significant races...
...WISCONSIN, April 2. McCarthy, sharing the ballot only with Johnson, has a good chance of scoring a decisive victory and may get important aid from antiwar Republicans, who have the legal right to cross over on primary day. Even Lyndon Johnson's campaign director describes it as "fertile ground" for McCarthy. So far, the President has shown no disposition to climb down from his above-the-battle aloofness. His supporters plan a heavy, if belated, advertising campaign. Most of the state's leading Democratic officeholders are studiously neutral in public and hostile to Johnson in private...