Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon-Agnew this fall, are in the running for Attorney General. Finch, however, is in a delicate political dilemma. Now lieutenant governor of California, he has built an impressive constituency among moderate Republicans and independents at home. He would like to run for the U.S. Senate or the governorship in 1970, but both George Murphy and Ronald Reagan seem to like their current roles, and will probably seek reelection. Finch, 43, must either return home to tend to his political power base or come to Washington and risk losing the California support that some Republicans think might propel...
...Maryland throughout the presidential campaign had it that if Hubert Humphrey won the election, local Democrats would immediately demand a recount. For the Democrats were well aware that when the Republican Party won the White House, it lost the statehouse. When Vice President-elect Spiro Agnew resigns his governorship some time after the Electoral College makes his election official on Dec. 16, Maryland's general assembly is certain to choose a Democrat to succeed him for the remaining two years of his four-year term...
...five states-California, New York, Delaware, Indiana and Iowa-gained control of both houses of legislatures that were formerly split. Particularly hard hit was California Democrat Jesse Unruh, who had hoped to use his post as speaker of the state's assembly as a springboard to the governorship in 1970 but now faces at least two years in the humbler and less visible job of minority leader...
When Luis Alberto Ferré, 64, a wealthy, M. I. T. -trained engineer, defeated the PTJ.P. candidate for the governorship two weeks ago, Muñoz waited a week to wish him luck. The 70-year-old statesman also held a post-election press conference to point out the error of Ferré's political ways. Luis Negrón López gave out a premature victory statement early on Election Night, when he was 15,000 votes ahead. When final returns showed him to be the loser by a margin of 390,000 to 367,000, Negr...
...loser statements, in fact, are probably rationalizations, from the game tears showing through Adlai Stevenson's remarks after he lost the 1952 presidential race (see box) to the naked bitterness of Richard Nixon in 1962, when it seemed that his defeat for the California governorship marked the end of his public life. In politics as well as business, the most common rationalization is that the loser has refused to pay a "price" for winning. Henry Clay, who spent 20 years trying to occupy the White House, finally produced that famous sour grape: "I would rather be right than President...