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...regard to Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement's comment [July 23] on the Eisenhower Administration: "A fantastic political Disneyland . . . half-informed, with a half-thought-out program, half-carried-out, half in the hands of a halftime, half-hearted President." Governor Clement left out one important "half" statement: that the Eisenhower Administration is just nearing its halfway mark...
Tennessee (32): Now the unit-rule delegation need not even give Tennessean Kefauver a "courtesy" vote (though Estes is a convention delegate). Under the leadership of Governor Frank Clement, the convention keynoter, 32 for Stevenson...
...name in their approaches to delegates). On Harriman's heels was Truman's Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, a Stevenson leader, arriving for a weekend in Independence; he felt confident that Truman would not try to block Adlai. Two days later Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement, the convention keynoter who-at 36-has hopes for the vice-presidential nomination, checked into Kansas City. Truman walked over to Clement's Muehlebach Hotel suite, explaining: "I wanted to take an hour or so so we can talk in a peaceful way. My office is full of customers...
Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement. As the keynote speaker at the Democratic convention, Clement hopes that his stem-winding, evangelistic style of oratory will inspire the delegates to nominate him for Vice President, and last week he tactfully sought fatherly preconvention advice from Mr. Democrat Harry Truman in Kansas City. Clement's chances for 1956 are dim, but his Democratic future, at 36, is bright...
Last week, for the second Press Conference, Producer Rountree had planned to have Tennessee Governor Frank Clement. But since Clement had been chosen to keynote the Democratic National Convention (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Butler vetoed the Press Conference appearance for fear that Clement might tell TV viewers what most already knew: Clement supports Adlai Stevenson. Instead, Rountree was able to book Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield for the show. Mansfield's big news: he, too, is for Stevenson...