Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics is a game of chance, and Lyndon Johnson, a consummate politician, knows that his chances of becoming the Democratic presidential candidate next year are all but nil. Last week, though, he was out of Texas for the first time this season on a fast, six-day political tour, looking...
Moving through Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Arizona, Johnson showed an uncanny understanding of his audiences. At a Drake University student Democratic club rally, he sensed the let-out partisanship of his listeners, proceeded to wow them with a wry reference to the Nixon-Rockefeller contest: "The Republicans apparently believe that...
They laughed when Harry Truman stood up to play a little politics. But before the evening was over the 1,600 paying guests ($100 a plate) gathered in Manhattan's Waldorf last week to honor Eleanor Roosevelt's 75th birthday knew that Harry Truman looks on 1960 Democratic...
Truman's first job was to introduce the seven Democratic presidential possibles, and he plainly wore his heart on his sleeve. He breezed lightly over California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the...
When the time came for Truman's full-dress speech, he was full of a fury that shocked the Stevenson-minded New York audience. He threw away a large chunk of his prepared script, sneered at "those snobs who think they have solutions to all our problems," and lit...