Word: wyman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote finally resolved the closest Senate election in U.S. history. In the first election, ten months ago, five-term Republican Congressman Louis Wyman was declared the winner by 355 votes, out of 236,140 cast. Democrats demanded a recount, and to their delight, Durkin turned out to be ten votes ahead. A state review board dominated by Republicans found Wyman had won by a mere two votes. The issue was then carried to the Senate, but Republicans effectively filibustered to prevent the Democratically controlled body from seating Durkin. He finally yielded and agreed to Republican demands for a new election...
...Smooth. New Hampshire Republicans expected to win the second time around, feeling that Wyman had been too complacent last November. On the surface, they had reason for confidence, since state elections normally turn on personality, experience and local issues. Wyman, a lawyer who was once New Hampshire's attorney general, looked strong on each count. He was more articulate and agile at debate; he looked and sounded like a Senator. "I have been trained for 25 years to learn how to be a U.S. Senator," Wyman boasted. Durkin, on the other hand, seemed ill-fitted to be a politician...
...Union Leader frequently assailed Durkin as a carpetbagger* from Massachusetts (he moved to New Hampshire eight years ago). Durkin was also tagged as a tool of labor unions and an advocate of big spending and big Government. Loeb even printed unsigned crackpot hate letters-purportedly from Durkin supporters-attacking Wyman...
...understandable that the President should want to get out and test the political waters in a state where he will be a candidate in the Republican primary next year. Ford's all-but-declared challenger, Ronald Reagan, was also in New Hampshire last week stumping for Wyman. Though Reagan is fading in many places, recent polls have shown him edging close to Ford's popularity rating in New Hampshire, and he is expected to announce in November that he will run in its primary next March...
Under Surveillance. Yet some Americans were warily questioning the wisdom of Ford's making such a trip at all; at moments he and Candidate Wyman rode standing up in an open limousine. Beside him was the usual complement of four Secret Service agents, including Agent Larry Buendorf, who had wrested the gun away from Fromme. Other agents were on the perimeter of the presidential entourage. A former prominent Manson family member, Linda Kasabian, was at her home a few miles from Milford, N.H., when Ford stopped there; but the Secret Service and a state police officer kept her under...