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Wed 12 Mar, 2014 06:45 am
"Sixteen years ago in 1952, I was nominated for vice president in Chicago at the Republican National Convention. And then eight years ago, I was nominated for president of the United States in Chicago at the Republican National Convention. And today, as I begin this campaign tour, I would have to say I've received the greatest political reception that I've ever received in my life in Chicago." Over and over, a half dozen times, he repeated that code word for Democratic lawlessness: Chicago.
The "he " in this paragraph is Nixon.
Why is Chicago the code word for Democratic lawlessness? What does that mean?
In some people's minds. There had been the "roaring twenties" and there had been violence in the streets during the '68 GOP convention. Depending which sort of ax was being ideologically ground, the writer was referring to one of those two situations.
Chicago: Where the Dead come out to vote.
@JustinXujia,
This may help you.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/chicago68/index.shtml
Nixon was the GOP Presidential nominee in 1968 running against the Democratic nominee. There were riots at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.
@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:Chicago: Where the Dead come out to vote.
You mean like these guys?
(I'm just joking!
)
@oralloy,
They vote early and they vote often.
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