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...chosen path of professional politics. Kentucky's Earle C. Clements traveled far, becoming a Congressman, then Governor (1947-50), then a U.S. Senator (1950-56). Even after he lost his 1956 Senate race to Thruston B. Morton (now Republican national chairman), Clements remained a power in Kentucky politics. Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson, under whom Clements had served as assistant Senate majority leader, thought so highly of Clements' political influence and skills that he made him a top "coordinator" of his vice-presidential campaign...
...group." He suggested that the issue was turning the whole campaign in Kennedy's favor. Ex-President Harry Truman charged that back home in Independence, Mo. "the Republicans are sending out all the dirty pamphlets they can find on the religious issue." Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton rebutted in the same vein: "The Democrats are deliberately keeping the religious issue alive for the purpose of exploiting it for their own political advantage. Former President Truman's statement that Republican headquarters are issuing anti-Catholic pamphlets is completely false and reprehensible...
...help to swing New York's 45 electoral votes. Rockefeller refused to join the ticket, but agreed to support Nixon. The Midwestern Republicans, still resentful of Lodge's role in derailing Ohio's Taft in 1952, wanted Nixon to pick Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton, G.O.P. National Chairman, for his Vice President. Everybody agreed he would add to Republican appeal in the South. But after Kennedy's surprise choice of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson as his running mate, dismayed Nixonmen shared Kennedy's feelings that the South was lost to the Republicans...
Brass and Percussion (Morton Gould and his Symphonic Band; Victor). Marches by Sousa, Goldman, E. E. Bagley and Conductor Gould pit piccolo against bassoon, trumpet against drum, with the listener caught in between, as if trapped in a Fourth of July parade...
Beethoven: Wellington's Victory (Morton Gould and his Orchestra; Victor). A rare lapse of genius, the so-called "Battle Symphony," written in 1813 when the composer was at the height of his powers (he had just finished the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies), is a fascinating but vulgar and bombastic ode to Wellington's victory over Napoleon. Frankly composed to make money and originally intended for the panharmonicon, a sort of early stereo machine built by a German inventor in which nine different types of instruments were operated mechanically, the piece includes a rumbling God Save the King...