Word: reade
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...pleasure at the results (see box, following page). He certainly could take satisfaction in the defeat of liberal Democratic Senators Albert Gore in Tennessee and Joseph Tydings in Maryland, and the election of Republicans Robert Taft Jr. in Ohio and Lowell Weicker Jr. in Connecticut. Most spectacularly, Nixon had read New York's liberal Republican Charles Goodell out of the G.O.P. and helped conservatism triumph in the person of James Buckley. Republican Governors Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan had won handily in the nation's two largest states...
...last two weeks of September, "the social issue dominated the campaign," Nixon said. "Then the Democrats read Scammon and Wattenberg [whose book, The Real Majority, argued that Republicans have understood Americans' desires and fears about law-and-order better than the Democrats], and then Hubert Humphrey wrapped himself in the flag and took off on a fire truck." The Democrats, he said, turned to the economic issue: "This was our low point." That was what sent him off to the hustings. (He called the Democrats' subsequent use of unemployment statistics "a lie.") His staff advised against campaigning...
...headed by Clark MacGregor of Minnesota and George Bush of Texas. His Senate summary: "We gained a working majority of at least three. In addition, there's the fallout effect on Senators up for re-election in '72. The changes this year might make some of them read the tea leaves...
...educated at the best schools -including Harrow in England and Milton Academy near Boston, Harvard and its law school-and at home, where his parents spoke French at the dinner table in a largely vain effort to transfer their facility, and his father often read classics to the children. But if he was immune to another language, he caught his father's parsimony: he still turns off unused lights, and his wife once told an interviewer that "when we were married, all of Ad's friends wanted to bite my wedding ring to see if it was real...
...sagged after a primary victory over a longtime Democratic incumbent, and in the closing days he turned to economic issues to rescue his race. Drinan relied on a corps of youthful volunteers and smoothly ran a computerized campaign to fulfill the hopes of a catchy election-night placard that read OUR FATHER WHO ART IN CONGRESS...