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...leadership. At a strictly political level, President Eisenhower showed little interest in his party. Last week even loyal Eisenhower-Republican Senator Cliff Case of New Jersey was moved to comment on Ike's lack of "love of politics and the political game." Said Utah's G.O.P. National Committeeman Jerry Jones, himself a middle-road Republican: "We have no political leadership. Ike, with his aloofness from politics-his attitude of being above it all-has made us all just a bit ashamed to be politicians." When Ike finally entered the 1958 campaign, the damage was already done. Said...
Louisiana Democrats last week fired the first salvo in the internecine war that will harass Democrats in general and National Chairman Paul M. Butler in particular right through the 1960 presidential election. In Baton Rouge the state committee, in a raucous, televised session, fired their national committeeman, Camille F. Gravel, Jr., 43. Grounds: Lawyer Gravel loyally supported the national party's civil rights platform...
Watch the Watchers. No lawyer has done more yeoman service for Hoffa than George Fitzgerald, a onetime Wayne County (Detroit) crime-busting prosecutor, onetime Michigan Democratic national committeeman, onetime defeated candidate for lieutenant governor (who got a $43,000 Teamster donation to his campaign chest). When the Internal Revenue Service bird-dogged Hoffa's tax returns, Fitzgerald suggested that Jimmy's accountant "get rid of" Hoffa's net-worth statement. When a Washington jury panel was called for Hoffa's bribery trial (TIME, July 29, 1957), Fitzgerald hired an investigator to investigate the jurors. Similarly, while...
Kansas' former State Democratic Chairman, Marvin A. ("Mike") Harder, 36, professor of political science at the Municipal University of Wichita, last week lost his own precinct committeeman's seat to Donald E. Anderson, 23. Winner Anderson's oddest qualification: he earned his political science degree last June after racking up a high grade in the political parties course taught by Professor Harder...
...unpopular right-to-work program is hurting party chances, and furthermore, that Nominee Knowland cannot beat Democratic Nominee Pat Brown, who led him by 606,000 votes in the cross-filed primary votes. Cf Los Angeles Lawyer Ed Shattuck, Knowland's campaign manager and Republican national committeeman, quit the Knowland campaign. Shattuck was criticized because he ran an ineffectual organization and, as a committeeman, should have been representing the whole party instead of one candidate-but mostly because his candidate did so badly. ¶ Lest fidgety Republican campaign contributors ditch Knowland as a lost cause, Vice President Richard...