Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlantic City, pushed on to Denver. In Dallas, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who customarily presides over the Democratic Convention, nominated fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson for his presidential candidate. Illinois' Adlai Stevenson held court with visiting politicos but maintained an inscrutable silence at his Libertyville home. California's Governor...
California is a mouth-watering morsel for any presidential aspirant. With 81 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention, it shares with Pennsylvania the party's second-strongest honors (first: New York with 114). And since taking office nine months ago, California's able, amiable Governor Edmund G. Brown has been wooed like a Spanish infanta for those votes. Every major candidate has gone West to learn "Pat" Brown's intentions, and Brown has parried them all with the answer that he will lead California's delegation to the convention as a favorite...
...anomaly and he has contracted a good case of undulant presidential fever. Two Brown agents, Lawyers Leonard Dieden and John Purchio, scouted twelve Western states last summer, reported temptingly that the West was still wild and wide open for any candidate who moved fast. At the Sun Valley Western Governors' conference .TIME, Oct. 12) Brown tried unsuccessfully to form a Western coalition behind him (and ran into a buzz-saw rival, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols). Brown frets over the rest of the nation's indifference to Western Governors. "Nobody outside of California has ever heard...
...hell, let's go!" exclaimed New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, closing a mid-September strategy huddle. "I want to do it, and regardless of what I do or don't do the speculation will continue." His mind made up, his plans well laid, Rockefeller last week announced the decision that he had nailed down in the conference: next month he will make speeches and talk politics in Vice President Nixon's fortress California and potentially pivotal Oregon. While still disavowing his candidacy, Rockefeller was obviously stalking the presidency a lot sooner and a lot more...
...schedule for friendly, probing chats. Next day he will head for San Francisco to address the Press and Union League Club, then on to Salem, Ore. on Nov. 14 for a speech at Willamette University. At trail's end will be Oregon's youthful (37) Governor Mark Hatfield-who dreams...