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Last week aged Vice President Alben Barkley stepped forward and announced that he would like to try. The Veep has always managed to be loyal to the Fair Deal (including FEPC), and at the same time so loyal to his friends both in the North & South that he is regarded by one & all as "Mr. Democrat." Asked on what ballot he expects his nomination, Barkley cracked: "Almost any ballot would be satisfactory...
...Paid a surprise call on the Senate, got a rising ovation from both Democratic and Republican members, heard Vice President Alben Barkley eulogize him as a "great President...
Vice President Alben Berkley is still considered a live possibility in Washington. No one has as many friends as Barkley among party leaders. His greatest drawback...
...hitch is that Rayburn is 70 years old and Barkley will be 75 in November. No major U.S. party ever nominated a man as old as 70. For that reason, Barkley's and Rayburn's chances are slim. Yet teamed with a younger man as candidate for Vice President (e.g., Stevenson or Harriman), either of the old names might appeal to a badly divided convention...
...People by borrowing and staging the Wintergreen for President number from the current Broadway revival of Of Thee I Sing, followed it with a filmed flashback covering the seven decision-filled years of the Truman Administration and a Washington interview with Vice President (and now Candidate) Alben Barkley...