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Morse was one of the most ornery of the "sons of the wild jackasses," the progressive Republicans out of the Mid west who waged epic battles with the banks and trusts. Born on a Wisconsin farm, Morse learned his politics from Senator Robert La Follette, the fiercely independent Republican who...
Died. Gerald P. Nye, 78, Republican Senator from North Dakota for 19 years and one of the nation's foremost isolationists; in Washington, D.C. A crusading country editor and partisan of 1924 Progressive Party Presidential Candidate Robert La Follette, Nye was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1925...
McGovern sits in his office surrounded by stuffed pheasants and distinguished service awards (one from the National Limestone Institute). "I don't have any trouble sleeping," he says. "I'm doing what I want to do." He is modishly dressed in wide collar and thick tie, yet talks...
Ironically, it was a member of a Roman Catholic dynasty, John F. Kennedy, who added new luster to Wasp ideals. He was such a model Wasp with his dry humor, his laconic eloquence and his lack of sentimentality, that he set a style which encouraged many authentic upper-class Wasps...
Wallace's 13% was impressive in one sense: it was more than twice the combined totals won by Progressive Henry Wallace and Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond in 1948 and was the largest third-party turnout since Robert La Follette garnered nearly 17% in 1924. (Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose...