Word: point
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Beverly Hills, Calif., the day after the third TV debate, Vice President Nixon made his major foreign-policy speech of the campaign. "It is time to launch a great new effort," he said, "an all-out offensive for peace and freedom." Key point in organizing the offensive: a series of conferences. Items...
...support you.' Today I say to you I hope you are successful.' Though McKay's Nixon endorsement surely would swing much weight with many of the nation's 1,400,000 Mormons (mostly in Utah, Arizona and Idaho), churchmen hastened to point out that the Mormon church has not officially endorsed a presidential candidate since stirring up a great storm by opposing Franklin Roosevelt's third term...
Near panic set in among the Communist delegates. Rumania's Deputy Foreign Minister Eduard Mezincescu popped up on a point of order, and Khrushchev took off his shoe, waved it and pounded it. Then, apparently dissatisfied with Mezincescu's protest, Nikita Khrushchev strode briskly down the aisle to pour vituperation on Sumulong...
Kennedy: I certainly do not, I do not think my wife is snobby. I think she is nice. But this is beside the point. I have stated repeatedly that as far as I am concerned clothing is not an issue in this campaign. I would certainly not want anyone to vote for or against me because of the clothing of my wife, who is pregnant. In fact, I would go so far as to call any attack on my pregnant wife's clothing unprincipled. It is the kind of attack that President Roosevelt characterized on December...
Nixon: I agree with the Senator that the clothing of a candidate's wife has no place in the political arena, and I repudiate all those who have used it on my behalf. But just to set the record straight I would like to point out that my wife buys most of her clothes off the racks of budget-priced stores, except for an occasional dress at Elizabeth Arden, a good American establishment patronized by the wife of our beloved President whose administration it has been my honor to run. If elected First Lady my wife would of course continue...