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...exciting," he says. "The President has given me complete freedom in running the department. In the next year, more than half of the President's program will be in health, education and welfare-just about the entire domestic program except for the tariff question." But in fact Vote Getter Ribicoff can hardly wait to return to the business of getting votes...
...Little Rock to the United Church Women of Fort Smith. The reason for his urgency: Fulbright faces his most serious opposition since he defeated Senator Hattie Caraway and Governor Homer Adkins in 1944. Democratic Representative Dale Alford, who went to Washington two years ago as an effective segregationist vote getter, has been redistricted out of his seat and has ambitions for Fulbright's. Governor Orval Faubus, finishing a record fourth term as Governor, might be tempted by the larger scope of Washington. Both Alford and Faubus would campaign against Fulbright by calling him a one-worlder who has traveled...
...Hughes. In his seven years in the Cabinet, he established a national reputation as a progressive Republican who got along well with labor. His primary victory over New Jersey's entrenched G.O.P. county leaders (18 out of 21 opposed him) last spring established him as a vote getter free of all taint of boss control...
With Larry O'Brien and his organization working as though their own lives were at stake, Kennedy won re-election to the Senate in 1958 by close to 900,000 votes, the biggest plurality in Massachusetts history. Kennedy's reputation as a prime vote getter-presumably on a national scale-was correspondingly enhanced. And so, in late February 1959, Jack Kennedy called a special presidential strategy session at his father's Palm Beach home. Present were Brothers Bobby and Teddy Kennedy, Brothers-in-Law Sarge Shriver and Steve Smith, Adviser Ted Sorensen-and Larry O'Brien...
Arthur Levitt, Democrat, ran for a second term as state controller in 1958-and was the only Democrat to win statewide office in Nelson Rockefeller's Republican sweep. With that credential as a vote getter, and as a down-the-line party regular, Levitt was the organization leaders' logical choice to buck Wagner in the primary. Accepting the bosses' decision, Levitt amiably announced that he had received a popular "mandate." Where Wagner's platform style is spare and uninspired, Levitt's is florid and uninspired...