Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Johnson's determination was startlingly real, Kennedy was still making yardage. California's Governor Pat Brown, whose delegation might well be the team that pushes Kennedy over the top, hinted last week that he might drop his favorite-son role at the end of the first ballot, or even sooner, and swing the majority of his 81 votes to Kennedy. Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman, keeper of Hubert Humphrey's strength, admitted that his squad was rooting for Kennedy. Iowa Governor Herschel Loveless has already made up his mind to forgo a nomination as favorite...
...moment of truth. Joe and Rose will pitch camp in a mansion, rented for the duration of the convention. Pat Lawford, a resident Californian, will have a front-row seat on the convention floor as a member of the California delegation, but she may have to cast her first ballot for Governor Pat Brown, the favorite son. From their Chicago and Washington homes, the Shrivers and Smiths will bear down on Los Angeles. The gathering of the clan, with peripheral in-laws, intimate friends, well-wishers and family retainers, should hit Los Angeles like an earthquake...
...already under stiff pressure by the Kennedy forces in his delegation; still, stubborn Bob Meyner refused to make any public endorsements. In California, Kennedy advance men helped fan reports that Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown was now "leaning" Kennedyward, but Brown was not yet talked out of his 81 first-ballot favorite-son votes. Penn sylvania's Governor David Lawrence (81 votes) kept his silence. Kennedy-minded Lawrence watchers thought that they read a new Kennedy gleam in his eye, but Lyndon Johnson's forces began claiming 27 Pennsylvania votes...
...week's end Kennedy was unperturbed that there were still quite a few empty seats on his bandwagon. He seemed supremely confident that they would soon be filled and that he would win on the first ballot. To this, there were few who would say nay, but it dawned on many last week that the chief enthusiasm for Kennedy came from the Kennedy camp, and that if he got the nomination, it would not be because of a great outpouring of popular feeling, but because he had captured it by might and main...
Bounces & Returns. With those prizes at stake, some bombs and bullets flew, and at least ten persons lay dead after political quarrels. Yet the secret ballot was getting results. Rural voters took the opportunity to eject two scions of old feudal clans from their traditional seats. Ex-President Chamoun, who accused his successors of rigging this election to bar him from a comeback, squeaked through to win a Maronite Christian seat. Also elected was a kingpin in the 1958 revolt that toppled Chamoun, moody Kamal Jumblatt. Another leader of that revolt, ex-Premier Saeb Salam, was confidently expected...