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...Nixon regime, the little ex-haberdasher from Missouri seems fit for Mount Rushmore. Of recent Presidents, only Truman and Dwight Eisenhower (whom H.S.T. resented) were able to retire from office with their reputations largely intact. Yet Truman never wasted a second polishing his image. He actively campaigned for Adlai Stevenson as the man to succeed him as Democratic standard bearer-but grumbled that the Hamlet-like Illinois Governor "was too busy making up his mind whether he had to go to the bathroom or not." Enemies fared far worse, rhetorically. According to Merle Miller, Truman called Nixon "a shifty-eyed...
...only contest that was especially exciting was in the freshman ranks. Ted Washburn's charges, thanks to some post-Sprints boat shuffling, finally came together. The shell set up with Peter Reynolds at stroke. Tom Howes at the seven seat, George Altken at six, and Roy Stevenson pulling the Pocock in the five position...
Services Committee, called the operation "a great boost to the country." Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois declared: "Let no one mistake the unity and the strength of an America under attack." Republican Senator Barry Goldwater said that without Ford's response, "every little half-assed nation would be taking a shot at us." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott declared that Ford had "shown he is a strong President and a man whose resolution held up under stress...
Parr's star was never higher than in 1948, when Coke Stevenson-a former Texas Governor and onetime Parr favorite fallen from grace-was pitted against young Congressman Lyndon Johnson in a tight Democratic senatorial primary. Six days after the election, it looked as if Stevenson had won by 113 votes of the almost 1 million cast. But then one precinct of Parr-bossed Jim Wells County reported that it had discovered 202 ballots that had not been counted before-and 201 of them were for Johnson. Recriminations flew, but the Democratic state executive committee upheld L.B.J...
Hooray for Adlai Stevenson III and Scoop Jackson [Feb. 24]! By proposing a federal oil firm, they've found a way to give the U.S. Post Office some competition in the matter of how to really raise prices...