Word: deweyitis
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...50s?withdrew of his own accord because he thought his former job would raise opposition in the Senate. A fourth, Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee to the court, took himself out because he thought that elevation of an Associate Justice would create friction and jealousy on the bench. Thomas Dewey, twice the Republican candidate for President, said simply that at 67 he was too old. A Chief Justice, said Dewey, should have at least ten years on the job. Burger, 61, at least has that prospect...
Last week, graying but as kinetic as ever at 47, Mayor Lindsay asked New Yorkers to give him four more years to try to bring the nation's unruliest city under control. Flanked by such Republican icons as former Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Mrs. Fiorello La Guardia, Lindsay announced his candidacy. "I run because too much, much too much, is at stake to abandon the effort my administration has begun," Lind say said. "I believe the tide of physical and spiritual decay has been turned...
...From left, front row: James L. Robertson, J. Dewey Daane, George W. Mitchell. Back row: Sherman J. Maisel, Andrew F. Brimmer, William W. Sherrill...
Unsuccessful presidential candidates often achieve high status in other careers, as did John W. Davis, the Democrat who lost to Coolidge in 1924 and is remembered as one of the country's top constitutional lawyers. Thomas E. Dewey twice survived defeat in the presidential race to resume a prosperous career in the law. Instead of berating the man who beat him, Wendell Willkie went on a global fact-finding mission for F.D.R. After losing the Democratic nomination to John F. Kennedy in 1 Adlai Stevenson gracefully became Kennedy's Ambassador to the U.N. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, rejected...