Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riding High. When "Big Jim" Thompson won the Illinois governorship by a whopping 1.3 million votes, people wondered if it would be all downhill from there. The government Thompson inherited was on the verge of bankruptcy because of the free-spending policies of maverick Democratic Governor Dan Walker. The statehouse was a shambles because of Walker's incessant feuding with Chicago's Cook County Democratic machine. Yet as Thompson starts his second year as Governor, he is far and away the most popular politician in the state and a reasonable contender for a place on the national ticket...
...such topics as Carter's foreign policy, the Bert Lance affair, the Concorde furor-are a Franco-American spaghetti of high-minded civics lessons and smoke-filled-room atmospherics. Though he correctly foresaw Carter's troubles over energy legislation, he has blandly described the New York governorship as a major stepping stone to the White House-which it has not been since 1932. French journalists, unaccustomed to Salinger's anecdotal style, dismiss him as a lightweight. "I don't go running to him to find new information," sniffs a leading Paris editor. Counters Salinger: "Since French...
...fancy balls." Henry Howell is on the Virginia hustings again, punctuating his outpourings of populist philosophy with karate chops at invisible exploiters of the little guy in the Old Dominion?the landed gentry, the bankers, the big public-service companies. Already a two-time loser for the governorship (in 1969 and 1973), Howell, 57, is giving it another try. This time his opponent is Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton, who is as lackluster as Howell is hokey and hard-hitting...
During his successful race for the West Virginia governorship last November, Jay Rockefeller kept a tight lip when it came to talk of his wealth. "I am too rich to steal," one less-than-tactful aide quoted him as saying during the campaign. How true. Last week, while Wife Sharon was in Washington testifying on her appointment to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Rockefeller finally released a financial report. His net worth: $19,716,479 in trust funds, property, furniture, art and other possessions...
...rang doorbells for ward politicians as a teen-ager while he worked his way through law school. He became the epitome of the back-room politician, and engineered many a political career, persuading an ex-assistant to the Secretary of the Navy named Adlai Stevenson to run for the governorship of Illinois and a University of Chicago professor, Paul Douglas, to try for the U.S. Senate...