Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Graham added, "Whether or not it was 'technical,' none of us can push the law that far." Graham is a member of the liberal-moderate Cambridge Convention '75 which "challenged" 150 absentee ballots used in Ward One last November, thus triggering the controversy.
This scenario, which assumes Jimmy will come out on top, leaves Stevenson as the only one remaining on the pundits' list of vice-presidential possibilities. He provides the old venerated name for Carter's new flashy one, the establishment ties for Carter's anti-Washington constituency, the urban Midwest appeal...
Daley and his power base--the Cook County Democratic Central Committee--usually determine who will represent the party statewide and in 1968 when Adlai III went before the slatemakers asking to begiven the nod to run for the Senate, Daley said no go--Stevenson was against the war. After the...
Speculation popped up last week that Senator Edward Kennedy might make himself available for a draft at the Democratic Convention. TIME National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian spent several days with Kennedy to determine how he views his future. Writes Ajemian:
It was perhaps inevitable, however, that speculation would revive about Kennedy, a man whose great gifts and flaws fascinate everyone. Last week, as the Carter bandwagon slowed, the New York Daily News claimed that Kennedy would accept a genuine draft at the convention but would not lift a finger to...