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This called for a scapegoat, and there was one handy: National Committeeman Wright Francis Morrow, the silver-haired, wealthy Houston attorney who, arm in arm with Shivers, helped guide the rebellion of '52. Morrow was as far out of favor as Shivers; for two years the national committee had steadfastly denied him a seat...
...record, the governor let it be known from Austin that he was abandoning his long struggle to keep Good Friend Morrow on the committee. "Certainly," he said, the national committee is "entitled to have a national committeeman who is friendly to the work" they are doing. Morrow could not swallow that. An hour after urging him to resign, he said, the governor "made a speech crying that he would never bend a knee to the will of the national committee. Well, why in God's name does he expect me to bend a knee to the same bunch...
...Texas to Eisenhower in 1952. Last month, during a Capitol Hill breakfast given by the Speaker of the House, "Mr. Sam" Rayburn of Texas, Chairman Butler and Governor Shivers conferred in the serving kitchen and agreed on an informal peace pact. Shivers privately agreed to choose a new national committeeman from Texas in place of his friend, Wright Morrow, long rebuffed by the National Committee...
...known personally by more local politicians and by more average voters than Earl Warren, Bill Knowland and Dick Nixon put together. "Whenever two Californians get together," says Democratic National Committeeman Paul Ziffren glumly, "up pops Goodie Knight." "Wholesome Insincerity." When the gubernatorial DC-3, The Grissly, is set down on a California runway, Goodie can always count on a welcoming swarm of local Republicans waiting eagerly on the apron. Goodie has a remarkable memory for names, delivered with a personal greeting, a quip and a hefty whack on the back...
...would give the Russians the idea that one-room schoolhouses dominate the U.S. in 1955; 2) a quotation from Thoreau which, the subcommittee thought, would give Europeans the idea that Americans "lead lives of quiet desperation," and 3) a photograph of a Vermont schoolteacher, because a friend of one committeeman had seen a Russian book with a better-looking teacher. Said Author Davie: "I didn't think I had to show schoolteachers looking like Rockettes...