Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Describing himself as "a strong partisan," Harris declared that the Administration's monetary and social programs have brought the country "very close to a recession...
...wide as the missile gap that they left us at the beginning of this Administration, and which we've been closing ever since," he told a Boston audience. The summer session of Congress, said Nixon, was "Kennedy's Congress," and it was "a monumental failure." His partisan crowd noisily devoured the scraps of red meat. His visit to Boston, said Nixon, was "one of the greatest days...
...conferences and intimate téte-á-tétes. His quarrel with Khrushchev, dating back to 1958, was temporarily dissolved again in a succession of handshakes and a long confabulation behind the grillwork doors of the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion.* Old Partisan Fighter Tito was himself living in capitalist splendor on Fifth Avenue, and spent his free time strolling in Central Park or watching the night glitter of Manhattan from the Rainbow Room, 64 stories above Rockefeller Plaza. Not confined like Khrushchev to Manhattan, he motored up to Hyde Park to visit Franklin Roosevelt...
This is a book that has and will continue to delight Kennedy supporters everywhere. But will it convince the Stevensonians and the undecided voters? Probably not, simply because it is the same kind of partisan literature, albeit better written, that can be found at any Kennedy headquarters. Unfortunately, the author's case against Nixon is stronger than his arguments for Kennedy, and Adlai's fans, although they will not vote for Nixon, are searching for reasons which, in good conscience, will allow them to support Kennedy...
...short, Kennedy or Nixon? is a brilliant piece of campaign propaganda. But sloppy and blindly partisan reasoning render it almost useless as a handbook for the discriminating undecided voter upon whom, if the pundits are right, the election depends...