" Rock Island " from Meridith Wilson's " The Music Man " is wholly spoken by an ensemble of travelling salesmen, as are most of the numbers for British actor Rex Harrison in the 1964 Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady.

His next was at the 1964 General Election when he stood in Harold Wilson's Huyton constituency.

During Wilson's time in office from 1964 to 1970, more new houses were built than in the last six years of the previous Conservative government.

Following its victory in the 1964 general election, Wilson's government began to increase social benefits.

Social security benefits were markedly increased during Wilson's first two years in office, as characterised by a budget passed in the final quarter of 1964 which raised the standard benefit rates for old age, sickness and invalidity by 18. 5 %.

Wilson's small majority after the 1964 general election had made the transaction of government business difficult, and in 1966 he called another election in which Labour gained a strong working majority of 96.

Housing was a major policy area under Wilson's Labour government, 1964 to 1970, with an accelerated pace of new building, as there was still a great deal of unfit housing needing replacement.

According to The New York Times, a 1964 guide called Earl Wilson's New York wrote that " artists, poets and promoters of coffeehouses from Greenwich Village are trying to remelt the neighborhood under the high-sounding name of ' East Village.

Creation of the remaining ranks mostly ceased once Harold Wilson's Labour government took office in 1964, and only four non-royal hereditary peerages have been created since then.

Although it welcomed the election of Harold Wilson's Labour government in 1964 – " Tribune takes over from Eton in the cabinet ", exclaimed a headline – the paper became rapidly disillusioned.

A member of Harold Wilson's government of 1964, she was influential in the creation of the Open University.

As Labour Member of Parliament from 1957 for East Ham North, later Newham North East, he was a minister of state in Harold Wilson's first government at Education and Science ( 1964 – 1966 ), then as Minister of Public Buildings and Works ( 1966 – 1967 ), and finally was put in charge of the still-new Ministry of Overseas Development ( 1967 – 1969 ).

Between March 1964 and June 1965, four of Wilson's albums hit the Top 10 on Billboards Top LPs chart.

In Harold Wilson's governments he was Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations ( 1964 – 66 ) — during which time he sought to deal with the consequences of Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence — and Minister of Overseas Development ( 1966 – 67 ).

One new member was Gerald Gardiner, who subsequently became Lord Chancellor in Harold Wilson's Labour Party government of 1964 – 1970.

On the day after the 1964 general election, Smith waited for what he thought a certain phone call to invite him to become a Minister in Harold Wilson's government.

Sir Kenneth Robinson PC ( 19 March 1911 – 16 February 1996 ) was a British Labour politician who served as Minister of Health in Harold Wilson's first government, from 1964 to 1968, when the position was merged into the new title of Secretary of State for Social Services.

This ensured his appointment as political correspondent for the Daily Herald from 1959, but Gaitskell's death in 1963 brought in Harold Wilson with whom Donnelly was not pleased ; although his skills would have merited appointment to Wilson's government after the 1964 election, Wilson offered Donnelly nothing.

The sequel, White Heat, covering the years 1964 – 1970 and the rise and fall of Harold Wilson's Labour government, was published in August 2006.

Set in the fictitious Derbyshire village of Shepherd's Delight during Harold Wilson's first term as Prime Minister ( 1964 – 1970 ), Oh My Darling Daughter is about the Kembles, a well-to-do, conservative and church-going family of five, and in particular about Viola, the eponymous daughter of the house who, at 17, suddenly finds herself in a position of having to care for the rest of the family when her mother Clementine walks out on them after a row with her husband.

Cousins served as Minister of Technology in Harold Wilson's Labour government from October 1964 until his resignation in July 1966.

Despite his narrow win, the 1916 election saw an increase in Wilson's popular vote from his election in 1912 when he won in a landslide.

Heath began negotiations with Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the Liberal Party but, when these failed, he resigned as Prime Minister on 4 March 1974, and was replaced by Wilson's minority Labour government, eventually confirmed, though with a tiny majority, in a second election in October of the same year.

In the third ballot on 5 April, Callaghan defeated Foot in a parliamentary vote of 176 to 137, thus becoming Wilson's successor as Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party, and remained prime minister until May 1979, when Labour lost the general election to the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister.

In 1916, the Literary Digest embarked on a national survey ( partly as a circulation-raising exercise ) and correctly predicted Woodrow Wilson's election as president.

Daniels supported Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 presidential election, and after Wilson's victory was appointed as Secretary of the Navy.

Following the election of 1912, Palmer hoped to join Wilson's Cabinet as Attorney General.

He also travelled to Brown's hometown of Kirkcaldy and immersed himself in numerous biographies of the man, including Ross Wilson's documentary films on New Labour in the year surrounding the 1997 election.

Following the election, he supported the progressive reforms of Wilson's first term, using his position as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee to manage legislation and maintain party discipline.

In the 1912 presidential election, Lane supported Democratic candidate and New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson, though he declined to make campaign speeches on Wilson's behalf, citing ICC policy that commissioners act in a nonpartisan manner.

Seymour's appointment lasted until the 1992 special election to select a replacement who would serve until the normal expiration of Wilson's term in 1995.

In the 1991 general election, Wilson's profile skyrocketed after his highly successful performance in the campaign's televised leaders debate.

He garnered support from German-American voters who did not like Woodrow Wilson's pro-British positions in order to win election.

In 1972, Michael Manley's People's National Party chose Wilson's " Better Must Come " as their election campaign song.

Morgenthau's career enabled him to contribute handsomely to President Woodrow Wilson's election campaign in 1912.

There was also an incident where a LM function celebrating Wilson's win in the 1972 federal election clashed with Eastick's main policy speech.

The U. S. House election, 1918 was an election for the United States House of Representatives on 1918-11-05 which occurred in the middle of President Woodrow Wilson's second term.

The U. S. House election, 1916 was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1916 which coincided with President Woodrow Wilson's re-election.

She continued to campaign for occupational safety and health while working as an investigating attorney for the U. S. Commission on Industrial Relations during Woodrow Wilson's presidency.

Ironically, in the 1912 campaign, McDonald was Woodrow Wilson's bodyguard.

Wilson's campaign focused on his independence from machine politics, and he promised that if elected he would not be beholden to party bosses.

Wilson's popularity as governor and his status in the national media gave impetus to his presidential campaign in 1912.

The campaign speech featured here accuses the Republicans of failing to acknowledge that President Wilson's successful prosecution of the war had, according to Cox, " saved civilization.

However, Wilson's view is not supported by Kenneth Kitchen who states: " That the great topographical list of Shoshenq I at Karnak is a document of the greatest possible value for the history and nature of his campaign against Judah and Israel is now clearly established beyond all dispute, thanks to the labours expended on that list by a series of scholars.

Their association would also result in Ford's book Woodrow Wilson, the Man and His Work, which was an account of Wilson's experience on the presidential campaign trail.

His behind-the-scenes campaign was the subject of the non-fiction book Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile and a subsequent film adaptation starring Tom Hanks as Wilson.

Wilson's appointment and filmed one campaign commercial.

The " Yes " campaign was officially supported by Wilson's Government and the majority of his cabinet, including the holders of three other Great Offices of State: Denis Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; James Callaghan, the Foreign Secretary ; and Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary.

Immediately following and through 1916, he served as first assistant postmaster general, and was chairman of Woodrow Wilson's reelection campaign in 1916.

In 1916 President Wilson wanted to appoint Gregory to the United States Supreme Court, but the attorney general declined the offer because of his impaired hearing, his eagerness to participate in Wilson's reelection campaign, and his belief that he lacked the necessary temperament to be a judge.

Through it, Clarke quickly emerged as Wilson's successor in the campaign for League membership.

The U. S., however, remained proudly neutral, as reflected in President Woodrow Wilson's re-election campaign slogan that year: He Kept Us Out of War.

In the week after Wilson's outburst, Miller had raised $ 1. 6 million, about three times his 2008 campaign, while Wilson raised $ 1. 8 million.

Lyons was a journalist who got involved in politics when he became secretary to William F. McCombs, who was Chairman of the Democratic National Committee during Woodrow Wilson's presidential campaign of 1912.

He managed President Wilson's western campaign against Charles Evans Hughes, which resulted in Wilson's very narrow reelection victory.

In the late 1960s, Tony Benn, working under Harold Wilson's Labour government, commissioned seven custom built mobile cinema units for the Ministry of Technology campaign to ' raise standards ' and promote British industry.

After his victory at Wilson's Creek in August, Price began a campaign to gain control of Missouri.

Crane contributed heavily to Woodrow Wilson's 1912 election campaign.