Word: claire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment of pathos came when the clerk arrived at the name of California Democrat Clair Engle, who has undergone two brain operations and has not appeared in the Senate since April. For this occasion, Engle, smiling gallantly, had been wheeled into the chamber. When the clerk called his name, Engle tried to speak, but could not. Finally he lifted his left arm, pointed at his head, and nodded...
Lucretia Engle, wife of popular incumbent Democratic Senator Clair Engle, who was forced to withdraw from the primary after his second brain operation since August, came out for Sal inger. And Jackie Kennedy said: "President Kennedy valued his advice and counsel on all major matters." Salinger's past association as press secretary to Jack Kennedy clearly was his best issue. He constantly recalled the crises through which he had gone with the late President. In the final hours of the campaign, Pierre's people mailed 4,000,000 postcards, each bearing a blue-bordered photo of Kennedy...
...latest Field poll shows Cranston 33%, Salinger 27% and Incumbent Clair Engle, whose name remains on the ballot despite his withdrawal...
Before he entered Doctors Hospital in Washington two weeks ago for his second major brain operation in eight months, California's Democratic Sena tor Clair Engle prepared two statements for the press. The first said that he was still a candidate for renomination to the Senate in his state's June 2 primary. The second announced that he was quitting the campaign because of his health...
...struggle concerns Senator Clair Engle, 52, who is recuperating from a brain operation. Most California politicians feel that Engle cannot possibly conduct a vigorous re-election campaign, let alone represent a key state in Washington, and they want him to retire. Engle's wife, Lucretia, is fighting hard to keep him in the race. The liberal California Democratic Council has already rejected Engle and instead has endorsed State Controller Alan Cranston. Governor Brown, a longtime political colleague of Engle's, announced his support for Cranston...