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With the occasional aid of stage props (including a horse and pet monkey), Chandler lampooned his opponents without mercy and with considerable corn. His chief targets: Governor Lawrence Wetherby ("Wetherbine") and Senator Earle Clements ("Clementine"), the acting majority leader of the U.S. Senate and absentee Democratic boss of Kentucky. Happy...
Chandler treats Combs with contempt, never refers to him by name ("Of course, Clementine picked this unsuspecting little fellow to run for governor"). Chandler described Wetherby as a spendthrift tosspot, dangling on Clements' string: "Clementine just picks up his telephone in Washington and tells that little Hitler down in...
"Cold & Embalmed." In retaliation, the Clements-Wetherby forces have hit hard at Chandler, bringing up the free swimming pool a contractor once installed (1942) in U.S. Senator Chandler's back yard, and producing some damning canceled checks, totaling $32,841,40, which Happy received from a liquor wholesaler at...
A Big Secret. Unlike Johnson, Clements makes a fetish of secrecy. Example: as usual, he recently kept his staff members uninformed about where he would be on a weekend trip out of Washington (Capitol Hill staffers deem it important to know where their bosses can be reached by telephone). But...
Partly because of the transition period from Johnson to Clements in the Senate, but mostly because only a few major items remain on the congressional schedule for this session, the week was a slack one on Capitol Hill. Items: