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Think Big. Lou Harris is the man who last year advised New York's Wagner that the way to beat the organization candidate in the Democratic primary was to campaign against "bossism" (Wagner did just that). This year Harris has private political polls planned or under way in 30 states. Among his current clients: California's Governor Pat Brown, running for re-election against Richard Nixon; Philadelphia's ex-Mayor Richardson Dilworth, running for Governor of Pennsylvania (TIME, March 9). Most of Harris' political clients are Democrats - 80% ac cording to Harris, virtually 100% according...
...Wagner earned his win. Having turned against the bosses in order to ensure the support of the surging reform Democrats, Wagner managed to make bossism the campaign's big issue. Pale and drawn, his smile appearing as though it would fracture his face, Wagner campaigned tirelessly against such bosses as The Bronx's Charles Buckley, Brooklyn's Joseph Sharkey-and, particularly, Tammany Hall's Carmine De Sapio. Returning to his Greenwich Village apartment late one night, De Sapio was asked by a neighbor: "How's it going?" Replied De Sapio wearily: "It would be going...
...President at his Palm Springs retreat, South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt thought he had the answer. Ike had criticized the new Administration, Mundt reported in his weekly newsletter to constituents, as "too much left of center; too partisan; too slanted toward programs supported by union bossism." The Mundt report produced a thunderclap from Palm Springs. Said Eisenhower: "Senator Mundt's statement . . . does not accurately describe my views on public affairs . . . and I very much regret its issuance. The Senator evidently intended to repeat in detail our private and purely social conversation, but his recollection . . . and his interpretations...
...their few slips: a dissertation on the demise of bossism, delivered just after John Kennedy was nominated with the help of the biggest political bosses to be found...
...since De Sapio bulldozed the State Convention into nominating Frank Hogan for the senatorial seat now held by Kenneth Keating, New York's liberals have been battling to loosen his grip on the party. At that time De Sapio's blatant display of political power raised the charge of "bossism" and undoubtedly helped sweep the Rockefeller-Keating ticket to victory...