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...Alf Landon said last week, he was "a war hero who didn't know diddley-do about politics." At the moment, the G.O.P. is adrift, shorn of power and torn from its philosophical moorings. If it is to recapture power in Congress and the White House, it can do one of two things. It can permit itself to be captured by a magnetic leader who will sweep all before him, and pull a lot of Republicans in with him. Or it can develop, train and inspire thousands of candidates for all offices-local, state and national-who can honestly...
Johnson's electoral margin of 486 to 52 votes (assuming he loses Arizona's five) fell short of Franklin Roosevelt's record 523-to-8 victory over Alf Landon in 1936, but it was the second best in history. Moreover, when the final returns are tabulated, Johnson seems certain to be credited with the greatest popular-vote margin in U.S. history -some 61% of the record 70 mil- lion votes cast, and a plurality of some 15 million votes. In 1936, F.D.R. won 60.8% of the vote and had an 11,078,204-vote plurality...
...election is over and the country waits: not for the returns--Lyndon Johnson has smashed to the greatest election victory since FDR crushed Alf Landon--but for the President's performance in the months ahead, for the fulfillment of the promise that his landslide gives. Will Johnson, like Roosevelt, find his massive mandate more of a hindrance than a help? Will he choose to compromise away his program to hold his consensus? Or will he move boldly and artfully to transform his huge plurality into the energetic legislation the country needs and has waited for so long...
...crucial Midwest, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Democratic since Alf Landon) predictably chose L.B.J.; the Toledo Times broke a 116-year-old tradition and followed suit, while the Cincinnati Enquirer opted for Barry, and the Wisconsin State Journal decided, "We cannot honestly recommend either candidate to-the voters." Not surprisingly, one of the nation's largest Negro newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier, editorialized for Johnson. Also in the L.B.J. column were the Louisville Courier-Journal, and New Hampshire's Concord Daily Monitor. LIFE Magazine, which said of L.B.J. last week: "We think he deserves his own full term...
...third of his students failed to win degrees. Those who did, including Dean Acheson, Thomas Corcoran and David E. Lilienthal, often plunged straight into writing New Deal legislation. Himself an early Roosevelt Republican, Pound later became disillusioned with executive pressure on the courts and supported the G.O.P.'s Alf Landon...