Word: lyndon
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Politics is a game of chance, and Lyndon Johnson, a consummate politician, knows that his chances of becoming the Democratic presidential candidate next year are all but nil. Last week, though, he was out of Texas for the first time this season on a fast, six-day political tour, looking very much like a candidate who is running hard and expects...
...well that many of his turn-away audiences would come out to see a stuffed whale or Nikita Khrushchev or any traveling curiosity, he still savored the tumult and the shouting. In Hutchinson, Kans., he turned up in a hotel room surrounded by local admirers, some wearing "Like That Lyndon" buttons. As the formation of a local "Johnson for President" club was announced to an obbligato of rebel yells, Lyndon, who refuses to announce that he is a candidate, stood at the sidelines, beaming...
...important first ballot, hope that this will be enough to head off any bolt to Adlai Stevenson. And if, in the course of this power play, Johnson should finesse the nomination for himself, that would be fine. At a press conference in Des Moines last week, Lyndon said: "I am not a candidate and I do not intend to be. I do not say that I would not serve my country if the convention should do the unusual and select someone who isn't a candidate...
...resounding proclamation got plenty of headlines, but it suffered from one basic defect: House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, the Democrats who can do most to translate the program into law, stayed far, far away from the D.A.C. session and said not a good word for its platform...
...third place votes, Stevenson far outdistanced Senator John F. Kennedy '40. The leading candidates, and the percentage of the total adjusted voting strength behind them, are: Adial E. Stevenson 42 per cent John F. Kennedy 23 per cent Hubert Humphrey 13 per cent Stuart Symington 6 per cent Lyndon Johnson 6 per cent...