Word: zandt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressures worked, even upon some Republicans. In economically beset Pennsylvania, Republican Governor William Scranton announced that he was all for the public works appropriation, even sent ex-Representative James Van Zandt to Washington to lobby for the measure. As it turned out, eight of Pennsylvania's 14 Republicans voted for the bill...
...only issue that seemed to make much difference was Cuba-and that issue certainly redounded to the Democrats. Of all Republican candidates, Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, California's Gubernatorial Hopeful Richard Nixon, Pennsylvania's Senate Candidate James Van Zandt and Minnesota's Veteran Representative Walter Judd had been arguing hardest and longest for a tough U.S. policy toward Cuba. President Kennedy took the issue away from them -and all four lost...
Republican William W. Scranton defeated Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth to win the Governorship formerly held by Democrat David Lawrence. Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark managed to win re-election over James Van Zandt...
Those Republicans who had long been demanding tougher action on Cuba and who made it an important theme of their campaign, seemed likely to gain. Prominent among these were Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart and Pennsylvania's Senatorial Candidate James Van Zandt. Such experienced world affairs hands as California's Gubernatorial Candidate Richard Nixon also would benefit...
...screening system, mistakes were unavoidable. The first photographs of missile installations in Cuba were released not by Washington, but by the U.S. embassy in London-which distributed them to British papers. In New York, after a State Department briefing for Congressmen from the East Coast, Pennsylvania Representative James Van Zandt beat everybody else to the door, where he spilled the news to waiting reporters about the first high-seas interception of a Russian ship. Washington's prompt confirmation of Van Zandt's exclusive sparked a press rush toward Congressmen, many of whom were getting similar briefings...