Word: coattailing
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...between themselves, Nominees Stevenson and Estes Kefauver planned some mutual coattail-grabbing. Stevenson, for instance, should help make up for Kefauver's lack of popularity among Southern leaders. And, promised George Smathers in a stopover in Sioux City, "we'll keep Kefauver in the farm areas. Take here in Iowa, Kefauver has been a lot more in demand than Stevenson. People come up to me all the time and say, 'Just send Kefauver in, and we can carry the state for Kefauver and Stevenson.' Get that...
Burke does, however, have one big fact in his favor. He is running under the aegis of Democratic Governor Frank Lausche, who appointed him to the Senate as Bob Taft's replacement. And, in Ohio, the Lausche coattails are second to none-not even Dwight Eisenhower's, to which former Taftman George Bender has clung with might and main. As of last week, Ohio looked like a coattail tossup...
...said his last word for the time being on the subject (of McCarthyism), President Eisenhower declared flatly. He answered questions on Indo-China (no decision on intervention) and on his proposed peacetime atomic pool (no hope of Soviet acceptance). Asked about a charge that Democrats were riding on his coattails, the President laughed: You don't know, just trying to ride someone else's coattail, where you are going...
...second time in its long and rambunctious history, Mississippi discovered last week that it was infested with scalawags & carpetbaggers. The new crop of chiselers were patronage peddlers, coattail riders and easy-money boys of the Truman Administration...
Most of them shared in common the handful of ideas that Harry Truman campaigned on. They also shared among them a hatful of political savvy. Many of them had been stronger than the ticket, had got to Congress on their own merits. Ideologically, they were not coattail riders of Harry Truman either; they were men who had gotten their political doctrine from the same source: the collection of ideas known as the New Deal...