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...application forms ("Have you ever been arrested? Have you ever been sued? Have you ever been divorced?"). Glenn was reported to have made a strong impression, but Carter also quizzed Henry Jackson in New York and was planning to meet other hopefuls, including Impeachment Star Peter Rodino and probably Adlai Stevenson and Frank Church...
...each of the finalists personally this week in three or four more hours of intensive talks. "I want to be sure to be acquainted with them," he said in understatement. He could still spring a surprise, but the three other Senators not publicly ruled out of the running were Adlai Stevenson, Edmund Muskie and Henry Jackson. The assets and drawbacks of all six included...
...asked him to go to Washington to evaluate personally the half-dozen Senators whom Carter was considering for the vice presidency. It was an assignment that Carter would give to no other man. Kirbo talked at length with Walter Mondale, Frank Church, John Glenn, Ed Muskie, Henry Jackson and Adlai Stevenson III. In his measured, mannerly way, the taciturn interrogator with the clear blue eyes asked them questions about their taxes and net worth, their health, and about their personal lives. He had picked up information that one of the men had an undisciplined temper, that another was a poor...
After the Ohio vote came in, Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson released the 86 delegates that Daley's machine had won for him as a favorite son. George Wallace urged his 168 delegates to support Carter. If all those delegates voted for Carter, he would have the 1,505 needed to nominate. Scoop Jackson and Frank Church were expected to endorse him soon...
...Senators who do are Ohio's John Glenn and Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Hero Glenn, who radiates waves of integrity, has large voter appeal but only two years of Senate experience. Stevenson offers more intellectual resources. Like Glenn, he would help deliver his home state, although Stevenson is considered a dreary campaigner...