Word: furcolo
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...Foster Furcolo and Joseph D. governor in 1958 and 1960. But 1960 race he ran a close second in the Democratic primary, a distinctly amateurish campaign. this time some observers feel has a better chance of winning, Edward F. McLaughlin is still the front-runner for the party endorsement...
...courted sporadically for five years-on O'Brien's terms. "It was always going to political rallies, or running over to see what the city council was doing," recalls Elva O'Brien. "That was Larry's idea of a date." Their best man was Foster Furcolo, an old friend of O'Brien's and a political comer...
After the war, Larry O'Brien returned to Springfield to manage the O'Brien Realty Co.-which had grown to include a gas station and a parking lot in addition to the restaurant-and to get back into politics. In Best Man Foster Furcolo, Organizer O'Brien had a ready candidate. Having come up through the wards, Furcolo was ready for the big time, and O'Brien was eager to handle his campaign for Congress. With his usual attention to detail, he gridded the Second Massachusetts District into 60 units, recruited a corps of "secretaries...
During that first Furcolo campaign, O'Brien devised many of the campaign techniques that later became standard operating procedure for John Kennedy's state and national efforts. But 1946 was a Republican year, and Furcolo was defeated by a scant 3,295 votes. As soon as the returns were in, O'Brien went methodically to work on the 1948 campaign. And in the second Furcolo race, O'Brien brought in a winner, with a 15,000 plurality. In gratitude, Foster Furcolo asked O'Brien to come to Washington as his administrative assistant. Two years later...
...rule out Foster Furcolo (for trying to keep Dean Bundy away from the New Frontier), John Briston Sullivan (for trying to bring him back), Pete Seeger '40, Lyndon Baines Johnson, James Reston, Howie Phillips '62, Ted Kennedy '54, Caldwell Titcomb '47, LeCorbusier, Bob Hope, and perhaps Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., rumored candidate for Massachusetts Governor...