Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SINCE 1961 Jesse Unruh has been the speaker in the California Assembly. This year he lost that position when the Reagan's Republicans captured the Assembly and Unruh, a Democrat, had to be replaced. Now Unruh is running directly against Reagan for the Governorship of California...
This education is also what Unruh carries into the California fight for the Governorship. It shows itself in some superficially distinctive ways: he "doesn't believe in the polls"; instead he disdains the defeatist pessimism of men like Tom Wicker and positively believes in his ability to challenge the incumbent...
...Nixon in 1960 and 1968, but the statehouse remained firmly in Democratic hands, as it has for eight decades. Now the old Byrd machine is moribund, and the G.O.P. is respectable in the South. A. (for Abner) Linwood Holton, 46, a close Nixon ally who ran unsuccessfully for the governorship four years ago, was the easy victor over William Battle...
...Frank Goad Clement, 49, three-term Governor of Tennessee; in an automobile accident; in Nashville, Tenn. Tall, handsome, a devout Methodist and Bible-spouting orator ("If a man finds his politics and religion don't mix, there is something wrong with his politics"), Clement won Tennessee's governorship in 1952 at the age of 32; two years later he was easily reelected. A moderate in the diehard South, he rose to national prominence as the Democratic Convention keynoter in 1956 with his "How long, America, O how long?" speech, ripping into "Vice-Hatchetman" Nixon. A third term...
...agree that your nudes look more real but I'm not sure yet whether I like that. Also, I was a little disturbed by some of your editorial matter. Like, do you really believe that Timothy Leary "might just have a chance of winning his campaign for the governorship of California"? But enough of heady political analysis. What really shook me up was your apparent stress on corporal punishment. ("Her eyes sparkled. 'We are in a birchwood. Perhaps you wish to birch me. Yes?'") I may be square, but frankly I don't get a charge...