Word: stassen
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...Francis Drake Hotel the night before she was to address the conclave. "They told me I needed a cast to my knee. I said no. They said I would lose my foot. I said, 'I have to make a speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.'" Harold Stassen, also 88 today, was in the U.S. delegation. The former Governor of Minnesota and perennial presidential hopeful recalls the thrill on June 21 as a plenary session in the city's Opera House received a motion to sign the charter: "Nobody spoke. Somebody said, 'Let's vote...
Burger did not plan to do what he did, other than being a lawyer. But he came to adulthood in a time when a young man of energy bumped into opportunity around every corner. His pal Harold E. Stassen, another bumptious Minnesota lawyer, became one of the hottest young Governors in the nation, and Burger was floor manager for Stassen's unsuccessful run for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination. Dwight D. Eisenhower's men noticed Burger and brought him to Washington after Ike's election in 1952. Burger was surprised and somewhat mystified when Richard Nixon plucked...
...Harold Stassen. No field would be complete without the 84-year-old former Minnesota Governor who made his first presidential...