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...unlikely amalgam of minorities: Southern whites, Jews, "ethnic"* blue-collar workers, blacks and campus-oriented intellectuals. Despite the disparate backgrounds and views of these blocs, the coalition was remarkably durable. It produced 20 consecutive years of Democratic Administrations, survived the virtually unbeatable heroic appeal and victories of Dwight Eisenhower, and regrouped to elect John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Severely split by the riotous Chicago convention in 1968, it began to reunite in the last weeks of that campaign and fell just short of putting Hubert Humphrey in the White House. But in 1972, while the coalition held much...
...Governor Donald Dwight the state campaign chairman had hoped the large voter turnout would bode well for the Nixon campaign in the state Commenting that Nixon supporters in Massachusetts were complacent and more easily discouraged by bad weather than the hard core McGovern devotees he predicted early in the evening that yesterday's fair weather would bring about a heavier than expected turnout among Nixon voters...
According to Dwight the National Committee to Re-Elect the President had written off Massachusetts and originally allocated a token $40,000 for the state campaign. He added that rigorous local canvassing and encouraging polls had prompted the national headquarters in contribute another $30,000 to the Massachusetts campaign...
...Home Journal. The November issue contains a lengthy report on canine activity under the mastership of Presidents since 1951. Dog Lover Traphes L. Bryant, retired kennel keeper of the White House, reports that presidential pups have relieved themselves on carpets, Calder sculptures and on one memorable occasion, Jacqueline Kennedy. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Weimaraner infuriated her short-tempered master by chasing his golf balls. John F. Kennedy soothed himself during the Cuban missile crisis by taking time out to pet his daughter Caroline's Welsh terrier Charlie. Dog-lovingest President: Lyndon B. Johnson, who allowed...
...prime supplier of Monday morning headlines. Americans got their first official word of the Russian atomic bomb from an inadvertent remark made by General Walter Bedell Smith on a 1949 program. Thomas E. Dewey used the show in 1950 to eliminate himself from the presidential race and to tout Dwight Eisenhower as the 1952 Republican nominee. John F. Kennedy made his debut on MTP in 1951 as a young, relatively obscure Congressman. "We were looking for fresh faces," Spivak recalls. "He was exactly right for the medium...