Word: misheard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Check. The second sentence did refer, albeit a bit ambiguously, to Nixon. Post Staff Writer Tim O'Brien, watching the telecast, apparently misheard Goldwater's reference to Truman. Fastening on the last mention of Nixon, O'Brien wrote his story...
...Texas State Representative Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold. By the time the roll call finally began, the delegates were in a prankish mood, casting ballots for TV's Archie Bunker, Martha Mitchell and CBS-TV's Roger Mudd. It was, said Mankiewicz, "like the last day of school." Because the clerk misheard a name, one vote was even recorded temporarily for Mao Tse-tung. Finally, in a grace note that brought the convention to its feet cheering, the Alabama delegation cast all of its 37 votes for Eagleton, explaining that had Wallace been the nominee, he would have wanted the right...