Word: aura
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Bush couldn't risk being seen as a man presumptuously grasping at the Oval Office, so he relied on Cheney's aura of authority and competence to persuade Americans that the race was finally over and Gore should give up. "A lot of you wrote stories back in July that Cheney was a dumb pick," says Ron Kaufman, a G.O.P. consultant who worked in Bush's father's White House. "He sure doesn't look like a dumb pick now, does...
...John Kennedy in 1960 by a margin of problematic votes, worked for eight years in the Republican wilderness, speaking to every Rotary and Kiwanis that would have him. But Nixon had more ground to make up. He was defeated in the California race for Governor in 1962; an aura of redoubled loser clung to him like 5 o'clock shadow. It was early 1968 before he looked like a winner again...
...this conflict among our national leaders and levels of government, as The Crimson reported on its front page yesterday, has potentially jeopardized our aura of stability, at least temporarily, in the eyes of the international community...
Between the hectoring voice of James Baker and the monotone of Warren Christopher, David Boies cheerfully made the Democratic case to the TV crews. In a crisis atmosphere, he gave off an aura of confidence that somehow the system would work--not in weeks but in days. As he earnestly told a Russian TV reporter one night, "This doesn't happen very often here in this country. It's not a question of legal maneuvering. And it ought not to be a question of politics. It's a question of whom did the voters want." The Russian walked off, nodding...
...Kennedy in 1960 by a few hallucinated votes in Cook County, worked for eight years in the Republican wilderness, speaking to every Rotary and Kiwanis that would have him. But Nixon had more ground to make up. He was defeated in the California race for governor in 1962; an aura of redoubled loser clung to him like five o'clock shadow. It was early 1968 before he looked like a winner again...