Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...additional $1,700,000 earmarked for TV. Extra 60-second spots were booked on programs in 15 states, including the eight so-called "battleground states" that account for 227 of the 270 electoral votes needed for victory-California, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas. In a final-week electronic blitz, Humphrey spent $3,000,000 on TV, and the G.O.P. was not far off that figure...
...final margin was embarrassingly short of that estimate. To be sure, the smooth success of his early campaign strategy gave ample reason for optimism. Determined to shuck his loser's image, he entered six primaries, won them all- frightening off Michigan's Governor George Romney before the balloting even began in New Hampshire, and forcing New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller into fatal blunders of indecision. California's Governor Ronald Reagan was never a real threat; besides, after the 1964 Goldwater disaster, the G.O.P.'s centrist and progressive wings wanted nothing more to do with...
...final returns seemed headed for a virtual tie in the popular vote, the rival surveys could rightly claim that they had come well within their acceptable error of 4%. Harris had Humphrey on the button, Nixon three points low. Gallup was one point low on Nixon and three on Humphrey. Both correctly forecast the Wallace vote. In the end, Gallup and Harris turned out to be reasonably accurate and had obviously restored some confidence in polls...
...second break came on Oct. 29, after President Lyndon B. Johnson and his chief advisers had probed and considered for 20 days. The best evidence, the best advice, argued for a halt. But Johnson still hesitated, harried by a final doubt. There was only one man who could resolve it for him, and he summoned home General Creighton W. Abrams, U.S. Commander in Viet Nam. At 2:38 a.m., dressed in civilian clothing to disguise him en route to the White House, Abrams walked into the Cabinet Room and sat down at the President's left. Johnson brought...
...final torment, Lear cradles the lifeless body of his heart's love, Cordelia, uttering the desolate fivefold "Never" over the daughter whom he will never see alive again. By that time, the odyssey of suffering is complete, and Cobb has elevated Lear's pain into a kingship of the spirit...