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Vice President Alben Barkley, who will be 75 in November, was thinking about announcing that he is a candidate. House Speaker Sam Rayburn's name was mentioned (he said he isn't a candidate). Farther afield, other names popped up: James A. Farley, Averell Harriman, Connecticut's Brien McMahon. Michigan's Governor Mennen ("Soapy") Williams said wistfully: "Some of my friends think that some day -I'm going to make...
...Senator Earle C. Clements ofKentucky also announced for a man from his own state: Alben Barkley. CJ Oveta Gulp Hobby, former chief of the WACs, now publisher of the Houston Post, announced that she likes...
...chosen Grunewald (at one point Brewster referred to him as "Henry") for such a confidential mission? Said Brewster: "He was apparently well known to members on both sides of the chamber. I think the one who originally spoke highly of him to me was Vice President Barkley . . . as well as Senator Holland of Florida . . . I didn't realize all that was involved, but if I wanted to get a man who had a capacity to keep his mouth shut . . . I didn't realize he was that good." (Laughter...
...Tennessee's Percy Priest and Missouri's O. K. Armstrong, who ushered at meetings, New Hampshire's Senator Tobey ("the warmest-hearted friend I had"), and Senator Hoey and the rest of the representatives from Billy's home state of North Carolina. Vice President Alben Barkley told Billy admiringly: "You're certainly rockin' the old Capitol...
...General, he became known as "the headsman" when he swept some 40,000 Republican postmasters off the payroll. In Cleveland's second term, he was Vice President. Lewis Green Stevenson, his son, was Illinois' secretary of state in 1914-16. (Another relative in politics: Vice President Alben Barkley, whose grandmother was Grandfather Adlai's first cousin.) Father Stevenson tried to warn his son Adlai away from politics. "Don't ever get mixed up in that dirty game," he said firmly...