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Democrats have a slightly wider choice among Senator Estee Kefauver, Senator Robert S. Kerr, Vice-President Alben W. Barkley, Senator Richard B. Russell, Senator Brien McMahon, W. Averell Harriman, Governor G. Mennen Williams, and Governor Adlai E. Stevenson. Stevenson's name is included since the ballots were printed before he withdrew from the race...
...Unable at the moment to match him with a worthy competitor, they planned to grab the balance of power by nurturing a long list of favorite sons-among them Averell Harriman in New York, Governor Paul Dever in Massachusetts, Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams in Michigan, Vice President Alben Barkley in Kentucky-who could be counted on to keep their state delegations on ice, out of Kefauver's reach...
...example, last week she gently suggested that Vice President Barkley was getting a little old (74) to be thinking of running for President, an opinion, she says, that Truman also holds and that Barkley himself is coming around to. It well illustrated her talent for criticizing her friends in a motherly voice without losing them as friends-or sources...
Vice President Alben Barkley was still thinking about running, but insisted he hadn't made up his mind. Said he: "I'm not like the justice of the peace in Kentucky, who announced that he was taking the case under advisement and would render a decision in one week for the plaintiff...
...treat. The Queen won more friends when she addressed a joint session of Congress the next day. Unawed by the glare of television lights or the big, crowded chamber, she pulled off her right glove with a quick movement, shook hands with Speaker Sam Rayburn and Vice President Alben Barkley, took out her speech-most of which she had written herself-tilted her chin toward the galleries, and went right to work...