Word: governor
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...reason for the pattern into which California presidential campaigning has fallen is the omnipresence of the state's own Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown. Already announced as a favorite son. Pat Brown, after a remarkably successful first year as Governor, is beginning to get serious notions about the 'White House. He is therefore extremely careful never to let the state's aspiring visitors get far out of his sight. As with Kennedy and Humphrey. Stu Symington's speaking dates and travel schedules were set up by the Brown-dominated Democratic State Central Committee...
...Sacramento to spend a night with Brown himself. Next morning he sat with Brown (as had Kennedy) at a press conference, traded amiable tributes. Asked how he would regard Pat Brown as a running mate on the national Democratic ticket, Symington replied: "Well. I think so highly of Governor Brown that I'd be more interested in how he would rate me as his.'' Glowed Brown: "You're very gracious." After the press conference. Symington spoke briefly to the California legislature, where he drew a respectful hearing-although by no means as large an audience...
From Albany west to Corning, thence on to Niagara Falls, then the length of the state to Manhattan-630 airway miles in all-whizzed New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week, shaking hands, slapping backs, issuing a tireless stream of enthusiastic comment: "Great . . . Isn't this fun . . . Wonderfully exciting ..." Cried he, spotting a three-year-old girl at Niagara Falls: "Hi, sweetie pie. I wish I had your freckles." Promised he, speaking at a Republican State Committee dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel: the same zestful formula that got him elected Governor last fall "will...
...morning ceremonies in the Tercentenary Theatre will start at 9:15 with the arrival of Commonwealth governor Foster Furcolo, escorted by a mounted troop of National Lancers. The governor will then lead an impressive delegation of political officials, included in the traditional parade through the Yard...
President Pusey, Governor Furcolo, Dr. J. Laurence Pool '28, President of the Alumni Association, plus two honorary degree recipients, will speak before the assembled alumni in the Tercentenary Theatre. Luncheons will be served in the Yard regardless of weather conditions...