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Shortly before his 1954 election loss to Saltonstall, Furcolo appeared at a convention of the Americans for Democratic Action and told that group it should disband. Before then he had been a loyal supporter of the ADA's work.
The Democratic Party has two major objections to the Eisenhower ticket: 1) Eisenhower's health, and 2) Richard Nixon. I would strongly suggest that the Democratic Party at their convention nominate Eisenhower by acclamation, and then nominate Stevenson as vice-presidential candidate. This would settle both the problems, since...
Kefauver won nicely in a New Hampshire primary that drew 105,188 voters of both parties. The total vote was some 31,000 less than that of 1952 and represented 32% of the state's eligible voters, as compared to the 43% turnout in the hotly contested 1952 primary...
At the 1956 Democratic Convention, a civil rights plank may touch off a North-South fight so hot that Southern delegates will bolt the party. The chance that this will happen is increased by the accepted probability that Eisenhower will win whether or not the South bolts. Some Southerners may...
Now that the effort to dump Nixon from the Republican ticket has run into strong, public opposition from President Eisenhower himself, the All-American Boy of the Republican Party is apparently destined for the number two spot once again--assuming that both Nixon and the convention nod approval. If liberal...