Word: edmondson
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Despite his obscurity and youth, Criswell at 36 is no stranger to politics or to Washington. He was a newspaperman before becoming former Governor J. Howard Edmondson's press secretary. He moved to Washington when Edmondson had himself appointed Senator in 1963 but was out of a job upon the Senator's defeat in a 1964 runoff primary. Jim Jones, a fellow Oklahoman working for Johnson, arranged a National Committee post. Jones was rising in status at the White House as an aide to Marvin Watson, now Postmaster General, and with his help Criswell moved up notch...
...They're mostly ribbon chasers," says Kaye Edmondson of the 150 youngsters (only ten of them boys) whom she trains at Valley Farm Stables in Pacific Palisades, Calif., where she watches them go through their junior horse shows every other week. "The whole horse business has changed," says her husband Lee, a former broncobuster. "Twenty or 30 years ago, showing was for the rich. Now English riding, hunting and showing have become tremendously popular with everyone...
...Harris was a state legislator, and at 33, after finishing fifth in a gubernatorial primary, he won the remaining two years of Kerr's Senate seat by upsetting ex-Governor J. Howard Edmondson (who had appointed himself Senator after Kerr died) in another primary, then edging famed Oklahoma Football Coach Bud Wilkinson in the 1964 general election. Now he and LaDonna, who have three little Indians of their own, move in Washington's more rarefied social circles...
There were other suggestions as well. Wisconsin's Proxmire recommended that the Senate and House appropriations committees hire private business-efficiency firms to review the President's budget requests and evaluate the effectiveness of Government agencies. Okla homa's Democratic Representative Ed Edmondson wanted more use of electronic equipment, including closed-circuit television of sessions of both houses to members' offices, and electronic voting. New York's Democratic Representative Benjamin Rosenthal, who recently had an efficiency expert study his own office staff's procedure, thought every Congressman should have access to such help. Rosenthal...
...Governors who lost out: Montana Democrat John E. Erickson in 1934; Nevada Democrat Edward P. Carville in 1946; Wyoming Democrat John Joseph Hickey in 1962; New Mexico Republican Edwin L. Mechem in 1964; Oklahoma Democrat J. Howard Edmondson in 1964. Kentucky Democrat Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler won senatorial elections...