Word: deweyitis
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...Dewey Hits Kennedy...
...rest of last night's session was devoted to giving the party's old-timers a chance to have their say. Former Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, blasting the acceptance speech of Senator John F. Kennedy '40 at the Democratic Convention two weeks ago, said that it made him "wonder whether he's grown up enough to be President." He criticized Kennedy for his "smart-aleck attack on the President and Vice-President of the United States," and charged that Kennedy had "associated himself" with Lincoln, Alexander the Great, etc., in his reply to former President Truman...
Nixon, according to Dewey, "has a degree of maturity and experience rare in American history...
...Republican nominating conventions since 1928, Johnson's hope that the suspense would carry beyond the first ballot was pretty dim. In only four of the past 16 conventions did it take more than one ballot to nominate a presidential candidate (Roosevelt in 1932, four ballots; Willkie in 1940, six; Dewey in 1948, three; Stevenson in 1952, three...
...Minus New York's Tom Dewey, Republican presidential candidate in 1944 and 1948 and a Nixon in '60 man, who will miss his first convention in 20 years because, as he told Rocky with a straight face, he has business appoint ments in Europe...