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Democratic conventions have never been for the fainthearted. Whatever Democrats believe, they tend to believe it with the brawling gusto of a radio talk-show host. Whether it was Chicago Mayor Richard Daley snarling read-my- lips obscenities in 1968 or Senator Edward Kennedy battling a sitting President to the last bitter moment in 1980, Democrats have settled their differences with the civility of the Hatfields and the McCoys. Even the 1932 convention that first nominated Party Icon Franklin Roosevelt was raucous and bitter. As H.L. Mencken wrote at the time, "The great combat is ending this afternoon in classical...
...well. Bob Strauss is not one to dwell on his failures. As a consummate inside political trader, perhaps the last of the breed, he never lacks new challenges. His predecessors, all the great political bosses and power brokers of the past -- Daley, Meany, Rayburn, Johnson -- are gone now, their reputations eroded by the winds of calamity and reform. Yet if today's prefab candidates and queasy partisanship make some voters long for the old smoke- filled rooms, they can take heart: the legacy of the backstage impresarios lives on in Strauss...
...very nice man who would very much like to be president." Not only did John F. Kennedy '40 barely win the nomination, his margin of victory in the general election was so small it has been alleged that he only won because of political chicanery by Daley's Chicago political machine. And our current president was best known as a joke in a Johnny Carson monologue before he managed to scale the White House walls on his second...
...generally would ignore them. The real decisions were made by back-room coalitions assembled at the convention. John Kennedy, for example, entered the West Virginia primary to prove he could win in an ardently Protestant state, then made his peace with the big-city bosses like Chicago's Richard Daley. Such an arrangement often froze out fresh faces and neglected dissenting minorities in the party. But it vetted candidates with a hard eye for their chances in the general election, and it imposed a rough kind of party unity behind the man lucky enough to make it to the White...
...wise chorus from those being clubbed: "The whole world is watching!" Then, through the death stench of the Chicago stockyards, inside the Democratic Convention, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff on the podium denouncing the "gestapo tactics" of the police, and down on the floor, in the Illinois delegation, Mayor Richard Daley, face contorted, screaming at Ribicoff. TV's nation of lip-readers & thought they saw Daley emit the words: "F--- you, you Jew son of a bitch . . . Go home!" Daley later said he never used language like that. In any case, a century of backroom politics died at that instant...