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...pilot of the bandwagon wanted, for the time was at hand to convince the bosses of the big holdout states that they would be left far behind at the Los Angeles convention if they did not scramble aboard. But there was no stampede. In New York, the delegates' caucus at Albany handed Kennedy a predicted minimum of 87 out of 114. In Manhattan, Kennedy himself paid a call on the Liberal Party policy committee and pledged lasting devotion to civil rights, announced that he had no strength in the South and was seeking none. (Coupled with a Washington endorsement...
Alaska (9): Uncommitted, with 1½ votes each for Johnson and Symington, 3 votes for Kennedy and 3 for Stevenson, but a voluntary unit rule could tip it either way at pre-convention caucus...
...aides and impatient partisans were urging him to declare himself before it is too late. In Independence, Harry Truman listened attentively to Symington's new plans, then gave his seasoned opinion: "I agree. That's what you should do." The next day in the crowded Senate Caucus Room, Stuart Symington declared his intentions: "I wish to announce," he said, "that I am a candidate for President of the United States...
...that, the event proved Gore's point. At the Democratic caucus called by Johnson to consider the liberal protests, Johnson spent 20 minutes defending his Senate management. When he finished, New Mexico's veteran (since 1935) Senator Dennis Chavez stood up. "I'm a liberal," he said, "and I'm for Lyndon Johnson." West Virginia's Robert Byrd, a first-term Senator, followed. "If I've learned anything," he said, "it's that Senate youngsters are expected to keep quiet." But he nonetheless felt obliged to speak up for Johnson, who had traveled...
Kennedy. Wearing a handsome grin and a deep tan (he was just back from a two-week rest in Jamaica), Jack Kennedy packed the stately caucus room of the old Senate Office Building as a front runner should. Millionaire Jack (see box) made no mention of money, called himself a "liberal Democrat," spun out a list of global questions that would require "crucial decisions" in the years ahead (arms race, emergent nations, U.S. science and education, farm policy, moral purpose...