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Shortly after he reached Chicago from Houston, Governor Lee seemed to agree with Senator Taft's statement about him. Lee and the two other Taft governors-Len Jordan of Idaho and Norman Brunsdale of North Dakota-repudiated the Houston statement that they had signed. Their delegations voted with Taft's side in the rules fight. Said Lee: "The statement ... at Houston was signed ... to see that everything that was done was above reproach. But ... in fairness to everyone concerned, it is impossible for me to see how you can change long-established rules in the middle...
Aandahl soon found there was another side to Langer which appeals to North Dakota voters. Always an errand boy for the folks back home, Langer sends a letter signed "Bill" to mark almost every North Dakota birth, death, marriage and golden-wedding anniversary...
...Langer was ousted as governor of North Dakota after being convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison for extracting political contributions from public employees. He was finally acquitted after an appeal and two new trials, but there was more trouble ahead. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1940 after a surprising political comeback, he faced a "moral turpitude" accusation. The Senate Elections Committee voted 13-3 to exclude him, after the majority agreed that his record was studded with "gross impropriety, lawlessness, shotgun law enforcement" and property deals which amounted to "briberies." Despite all this, the Senate...
With all that to talk about, Representative Fred G. Aandahl, a former three-term governor who had never lost a state election, took Bill Langer on in the Republican primary. The winner would be a sure bet in November; North Dakota has sent only one labeled Democrat to Congress...
Last week, when the votes were in, Bill Langer had walloped Fred Aandahl by the overwhelming (for North Dakota) margin of 25,000 votes...