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...long after the compromise was approved, former National Chairman Stephen Mitchell, a chief adviser to Stevenson, said he would fight to keep out of the convention South Carolina's former Governor James F. Byrnes, Louisiana's Governor Robert Kennon, Texas' Governor Allan Shivers and former National Committeeman Wright Morrow. to these four, who bolted and supported Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, Mitchell applied a Western philosophy: "If you want to know what a cowboy will do when he's drunk, then find out what he did the last time he was drunk." ¶ Tennessee's Senator...
...with a bang in a state that Kefauver carried easily in 1952 (against a slate headed by Attorney General "Pat" Brown). San Francisco Attorney De Lancey C. Smith says he has been instructed by Kefauver to get together a statewide organization for next year's fight. California National Committeeman Paul Ziffren is certain that Stevenson will enter the primary. "I would be shocked if he backed out," says Ziffren, "and I would be shocked...
...This does it," exulted Minnesota's youngish (37) National Committeeman Gerald Heaney. Next night Harriman drew cheers too, but the delegates had already heard it all from Stevenson. His speech, Harriman admitted, contained "a good deal of the same thing...
...Under No Circumstances." Among the most striking evidences of a feet-on-the-ground Republican posture was the general willingness to face reality The merest handful of Republican leaders still clung to the idea that Dwight Eisenhower might run again for President. Said Louisiana's National Committeeman John Minor Wisdom: "I would rather see a sick Eisenhower than a well Democrat in the White House." Crooned Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen: "'Duty' is the shiny iridescent word the President learned at West Point. The President knows and will know where his duty lies." To Ev Dirksen...
Some anti-Gaitskell Laborites think that just such a man is Alfred Robens, 44, a burly, longtime trade unionist with a flat North-Country accent and a broad-humored Lancashire wife. A veteran parliamentarian and nimble committeeman, "Alf" served as Minister of Labor in the last Socialist government, and was designated "Foreign Secretary" in the "shadow Cabinet" that would theoretically take over from the Tories if Labor wins the next election. There is talk of grooming Robens for bigger things...