Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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By that standard, the outcome of last week's Wisconsin Democratic primary was worse than catastrophic. Reynolds won handily enough, collecting 511,000 votes. But Wallace made an astonishing show with 264,000. In the Republican primary an unopposed favorite son, U.S. Representative John Byrnes, got 301,000 votes...
Much of his vote, it has been argued, resulted from Republicans' attempts to embarrass John Reynolds, both as governor of the state and as a favorite son candidate standing in for the Johnson Administration. There is little doubt that many Republicans did in fact cross party lines (which is easy...
A few weeks ago the name of John Byrnes, 50, highly respected ten-term Republican Congressman from Wisconsin, was associated with one of ex-Senate Democratic Secretary Bobby Baker's big-money schemes. Byrnes had helped get a favorable tax ruling for a Milwaukee insurance firm, then at Baker...
The idea, said Byrnes, was to prevent a "divisive" party battle in Wisconsin between other G.O.P. presidential hopefuls-most notably Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater. He attached a condition: that the major candidates agree to stay out of the state and leave Wisconsin's 30 delegates committed to him...
As for Goldwater, he had been trying to figure a way of staying out of Wisconsin, and now his sigh of relief could be heard across the land. Said he of Byrnes's favorite-son candidacy: "Because of the peculiar election laws, a Republican is taking his life in...