Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Republicrat or Democan? Reporters who made the long plane trip with him cabled home informed stories about what kind of campaign strategy Nixon intended to follow. The basic decision was to try to erase the public's old image of a highly partisan Richard Nixon and substitute a new statesmanlike image to appeal to independents. On the trip, Nixon repeated again and again that he intended to "avoid personalities" during the campaign and "leave the low road to him"-meaning Jack Kennedy, though sometimes, when he accused Kennedy of buying the labor vote, it took a sensitive altimeter...
Prepared to do their partisan best, Senators returned to Washington in August. It was the first post-convention session since 1948, when Harry Truman called back the 80th Congress and denounced it as "do-nothing." This time it was Congress returning of its own (or its leaders') volition because it had not done its work before the Republican and Democratic conventions...
...Alsop is not a Jeremiah. He is just an intensely ingrown Democratic partisan...
...witty, partisan study of Charles II, who, often dismissed as a libertine and a fool, is here assessed as "the sanest and most civilized of monarchs." Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. An often touching, always entertaining account of the famed Mitford sisters, who loved too unwisely and too well, both in personal and political affairs...
...witty, partisan study of Charles II, who, often dismissed as a libertine and a fool, is here assessed as "the sanest and most civilized of monarchs." Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. An often touching, entertaining account of the famed Mitford sisters, who loved too unwisely and too well, both in personal and political affairs...