Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white-and-blue Chevy van. The candidates took similar stands on several important issues-against school busing, abortion, handgun registration and public works projects to reduce unemployment. But from the beginning, the campaign focused on character. Scarred by a grand jury investigation into corruption during his governorship (he was never indicted), Hearnes was on the defensive much of the time. Danforth can be a tough political infighter on issues he cares about-notably, the curse of Big Government. He has vowed to go to Washington "and be somewhat of a pain in the neck...
James ("Big Jim") Thompson, 40, who in four years as U.S. Attorney put dozens of Mayor Daley's underlings into the slammer for various forms of corruption, easily knocked off another Daley lieutenant, jowly Democrat Michael Hewlett, to win the state's governorship by more than a million votes. A Republican liberal, Thompson rolled up heavy majorities in conservative downstate Illinois and Chicago's suburbs; he even made inroads into the traditionally Democratic black wards of Chicago...
...priorities seem implicit in the autobiography that Carter wrote as he set out on his presidential quest. Yet despite his credentials-boyhood in and manhood return to South Georgia, a couple of terms in the state legislature, the governorship-how much of a Southern stamp does Carter really have? After all, he left Georgia at 18 for the U.S. Naval Academy, was exposed there to everything from ballroom dancing to naval strategy, followed that with windows on the non-Southern world in such places as Oahu, Hong Kong and Schenectady...
...state agencies to 14. Wealthy, self-assured, he has successfully fought against graft, and is so middle-of-the-road that both Reagan and Rockefeller have campaigned for him. Liabilities: limited experience and the fact that his elevation to the ticket could cost the G.O.P. the governorship...
...would his conversion to conservatism ever be totally convincing because of the structural demands of the governorship of New York. His effectiveness there depended on his ability to get along with the state's labor leaders, precipitating such moves as his refusal to call out the National Guard during the 1967 garbage strike in New York City. And in order to guarantee re-election in 1970 in his overwhelmingly Democratic state, Rockefeller was forced to take liberal positions on abortion, the 18-year-old vote, and mass transit...