Word: bandwagons
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That guy was belatedly running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Just when Jack Kennedy had settled back to polish his nomination-acceptance speech for delivery at Los Angeles, Lyndon Baines Johnson had saddled up and set off in an old-style pursuit of the rolling Kennedy bandwagon...
...chances of such a decisive superiority become less. In any case, it is quite clear that the attitude in the world at large up to now has been one of awe at the power possessed by both sides. There has not been any serious sign of a 'bandwagon' sentiment among neutrals or others to fall in with an obviously and inevitably superior Communist side...
Whooshing across the political skies for all to see last week was Jack Kennedy in his jet-propelled bandwagon. Behind him lay nearly two years of a most expert and relentless pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination, a campaign so finely machined, so thoroughly organized, so carefully fashioned for a single purpose that professional politicians fairly mopped their brows and goggled at what they saw. Said Illinois' old political pro Jake Arvey (who could scarcely cling any longer to Adlai Stevenson's star) : "Kennedy's got this country laid out like one big switchboard. He knows what...
...Tears. In two states the bandwagon nearly overshot its goal. Some Iowa delegates got hot because of Kennedyite attempts to get a public commitment out of Kennedy-leaning Governor Herschel Loveless; so enraged were some delegates that a few fell prey to the sweet-talk of Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird, when they came calling. In Colorado a critical casualty turned up at the delegates' convention in Durango, where Kennedy forces ganged up on Lyndon Johnson Supporter Edwin C. Johnson, who wanted to be named to the delegation. A three-time Governor and a thrice-elected...
...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...