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Johnson's first stop was Morganfield, Ky., for a luncheon huddle with Governor Bert Combs and ex-U.S. Senator Earle Clements. A probable conversational topic: Clements' appointment as Kentucky's commissioner of highways-a strategic spot where Kingmaker Clements can control the Kentucky delegation to next July's Democratic Convention. With the happy assurance that Kentucky's 31 delegate votes are as good as in his pocket, Johnson flew on to the Midwest in his rented red-and-white Beechcraft...
...that two's a crowd. They'll give us a choice of a vote for Checkers or a vote for a checkbook." But before a serious, nonpartisan service club luncheon in Des Moines, he picked a careful, solemn path. "I live by the rule that I am first a free man," he said, "then an American, a Senator of the United States, and a Democrat, in that order." Local Republicans and Democrats stood right up and cheered together...
...real mission as creating a bloc of votes that can influence, if not determine, the Democrats' choice of a candidate. Johnson and his sagacious Texas sidekick, Speaker Sam Rayburn, expect to hold more than 300 delegate votes (mostly Southern) at the convention's all-important first ballot, hope that this will be enough to head off any bolt to Adlai Stevenson. And if, in the course of this power play, Johnson should finesse the nomination for himself, that would be fine. At a press conference in Des Moines last week, Lyndon said: "I am not a candidate...
Truman's first job was to introduce the seven Democratic presidential possibles, and he plainly wore his heart on his sleeve. He breezed lightly over California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the spotlight of public interest"), and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams ("in the forefront of enlightened social legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice...
...poor guide compared with custom." And that, in fact, is just the trouble. By an act of 1536, Westminster "is reputed and called the King's Palace at Westminster forever." Its administrative head is the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, who declares that "my first duty is to the sovereign who appointed me," his second to the palace, and his third to doing what he can for M.P.s...