Showing posts with label Throwback. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Throwback. Show all posts

Thursday, December 3, 2015

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — Playing the Local Game

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — Playing the Local Game


Gov. George Romney of Michigan, then a Republican presidential candidate, at a candlestick bowling alley in Franklin, N.H., on Jan. 15, 1968.


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Thursday, November 19, 2015

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — ‘Just a Chat’

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — ‘Just a Chat’


Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the governor of New York and the Democratic presidential nominee, conferred with Col. Edward M. House, who had been an adviser to Woodrow Wilson, in Beverly Farms, Mass., on July 18, 1932. Roosevelt described the meeting as “just a chat.”


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Thursday, November 12, 2015

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — Campaigning Against a Landslide

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — Campaigning Against a Landslide


Thousands of supporters greeted former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic presidential nominee, in Des Moines in October 1984. Less than two weeks later, President Ronald Reagan was easily re-elected.


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Thursday, November 5, 2015

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — Rigors of Campaigning

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — Rigors of Campaigning


Dwight D. Eisenhower, then the Republican presidential nominee, napped between campaign stops in 1952.


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Thursday, October 29, 2015

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — Choosing Sides, Outside a Debate

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — Choosing Sides, Outside a Debate


Demonstrators outside WMUR television in Manchester, N.H., which hosted a Republican presidential debate on Feb. 15, 1996.


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Thursday, August 27, 2015

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — A Stampede, Before the Stampede

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday — A Stampede, Before the Stampede


A herd of elephants marched in procession in Indianapolis to greet the Republican presidential candidate, Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas, in October 1936.


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Thursday, August 20, 2015

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday, With Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

First Draft Focus: Throwback Thursday, With Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter


Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, on Nov. 2, 1976, the night he was elected president.


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