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...doubt that I'll ever seek public office again," Oklahoma's Democratic Governor J. Howard Edmondson sourly told a reporter. "I've had enough." But that was several months ago. Last week Edmondson, 37, showed just how completely he had changed his mind. Only eight days before he was to give way to the first Republican Governor in Oklahoma history, Edmondson resigned from office, had his lieutenant governor name him to the U.S. Senate vacancy caused by the death of Robert Kerr...
Some 25,000 visitors streamed in by automobile and pickup truck, by chartered bus and on horseback. Kennedy, flanked by Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr and Governor J. Howard Edmondson, stood on a bunting-decked stand alongside State Highway 103 and delivered a lackluster five-minute speech: "I can assure you, in the '60s, as the U.S. carries the standard of freedom everywhere in the world, we will also be carrying the standard of progress here in Oklahoma." There were some perfunctory pats for Bob Kerr, Senator Mike Monroney and Representative Carl Albert. Then the President snipped a ribbon across...
...possible swing to Symington. But in a day-long fight at the state convention. Kennedy backers, led by Congressman Stewart Udall, won nine votes, enough to rule the delegation for at least the first ballot. ¶ Oklahoma's stormy Democratic convention unseated Kennedy-suoporting Governor J. Howard Edmondson. 34, as a national-convention delegate, steamrollered on to choose a 29-vote delegation bound to Lyndon Johnson by unit rule and prepared to settle for Symington. Edmondson, loser in an intraparty fight last February with State Chairman Gene McGill, barely got back his convention seat at week...
WILLIAM R. EDMONDSON...
Another result of the vote: Oklahoma's 29 votes in the Democratic National Convention will go to Kerr's friend, Texas' Lyndon Johnson, and Kennedy-leaning Governor Edmondson will be on the delegation only if the old-line politicos decide to let him go along for the ride...