Word: tennessean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bush also demonstrated that he may be a better stump speaker than Baker. Both candidates showed up at a G.O.P. forum in Portland, Me., where Bush won so much support with a blood-stirring campaign speech that he narrowly upset Baker in a presidential straw vote. The Tennessean had been expected to win because he had the backing of the state's popular Republican Senator William Cohen. Baker cannot afford many more such defeats if he is to build the kind of national consensus that he has so skillfully crafted in the Senate's smaller world...
...PUSH HIS IDEAS into place, Baker's Tennessee forces have been loading up the buses and making a base for their candidate in New Hampshire. The Tennessean is a firm believer in campaigning, although his daughter adds, "we don't expect to win in New Hampshire, but I think we're about where we want...
Undaunted, he returned to the Justice Department only to leave at the end of 1962 to join the Tennessean. Six years later, he again left what he calls "the high calling of journalism" to help manage Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. His lucid speech becomes halting as he talks of the campaign that ended before it had a chance to succeed...
Seiganthaler, editor and president of the Nashville Tennessean served as administrative assistant to Robert F. Kennedy '44 in both the 1960 presidential campaign and in the Attorney General's office...
Seigenthaler returned to the Tennessean, this time as editor and president...