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Having the university in his district was no advantage, Scheer insists, "although everyone always assumes I did well because I had the faculty and all these fervent student leftists behind me." Actually one political scientist from Cal worked for him; the others, he says, were friends of Jeffrey Cohelan, the incumbent Democrat. Even the student leftists, including the Berkeley chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, opposed him. "They accused me of legimitizing the Democratic Party and ruining the left movement. I didn't care. But as it turned out, the 1000 kids who worked were mostly dormies and frat...
...truth, but the religious question didn't concern me. I wasn't antichurch; I just dropped out." He went on from U.S.C. to gain a doctorate in jurisprudence at Yale, and then to Washington to work for the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1938. "I was a fervent humanist when I went to work for the New Deal," Pike says. "I had a real sense of cause, of saving the widows and orphans from being robbed by Wall Street." He became engaged to another agnostic, Esther Yanovsky, and together they drew up their own marriage service; much...
...impressed was President-elect Franklin Roosevelt that he decided, even before his inauguration in 1933, to appoint Virginia's Senator Claude A. Swanson as Secretary of the Navy so that Harry Byrd could fill his unexpired term. Though a fervent New Dealer at the time, Byrd was soon disenchanted by F.D.R.'s fiscal policies, principally his failure to make good on a campaign promise to cut federal spending by 25%. Years later, when the U.S. budget had mushroomed to 25 times its pre-Roosevelt size, Senator Byrd noted wryly: "I campaigned for the New Deal platform...
What Reagan has going for him that Brown does not is a new surface unity in his party and a fervent neo-conservatism among the voters that helped the Republicans elect George Murphy to the Senate...
...Democratic party has charged substantially since the last gubernatorial campaign, too. This year, Brown has suffered considerably from hostile elements in his own party, although in both 1958 and 1962 he had a fervent organization behind...