Word: dixiecrats
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...promise he had made three months ago to support Eisenhower if he decided to run on the Republican ticket. A more surprising evidence of Ike's political appeal came from Louisiana's cigar-chomping Judge Leander Perez, national director of the States' Rights' (Dixiecrats) Committee. Perez told reporters that the Dixiecrats did not intend to put up their own presidential ticket in 1952, but said that Ike would have Dixiecrat support and "undoubtedly carry many Southern states if he ran," whether as a Republican or as a Democrat...
Hebert, a Dixiecrat, a foe of the President and a crony of Louisiana's dictatorial Political Boss Leander Perez, had asked the President to proclaim a day of prayer for "guidance and wisdom." The President thanked him politely for the suggestion, but rejected it on the grounds that his Thanksgiving proclamation had already accomplished Hebert's aim. Then, in a more acrid tone, Harry Truman added...
...hustled around the state in a chartered plane, reciting his achievements and promising more of the same. At every stop he also took a couple of lusty licks at Benjamin Travis Laney, the wealthy, 53-year-old former governor and Dixiecrat leader who had come out of political retirement to seek a third term and save Arkansas from Sid McMath and those Fair Deal radicals in Washington. Everywhere McMath went, he wore the same old blue suit, red tie and dilapidated Panama. He pumped the hands of the menfolk and introduced himself with a hearty "I'm Sid McMath...
...When Dixiecrat Laney tried to picture Sid McMath as a traitor to the South, supple Sid declared against such pet Truman projects as FEPC and compulsory health insurance, but still capitalized on his closeness to Harry Truman. Ben plaintively confessed that he had never learned "this glamour-boy, superman style of politicking," and even before primary day admitted: "He has had only 18 months in which to make political enemies. I had four full years...
...election day, the voters preferred Johnston, 178,000 to 154,000, a choice which National Chairman Bill Boyle applauded as, from his viewpoint, the lesser of two evils: Thurmond, as Dixiecrat candidate for President, had drawn 39 electoral votes from Harry Truman...