Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson in the House of Representatives in 1948 when Lyndon was elected a Senator. In the House, he was a Johnson-Rayburn-type moderate. Coleman is a segregationist-but far from a rabid redneck. He was a supporter of John Kennedy, lost a 1963 attempt to return to the governorship after his opponents labeled him "a weak sister trying to find the middle ground on segregation." Thornberry will replace retired Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr., who usually voted with the pro-civil rights bloc on the court, and Coleman will replace the late Judge Ben F. Cameron, a strong segregationist...
...after ten years of Republican rule, but proved less successful himself in 1960 when he ran for the U.S. Senate against Clifford Case, losing by 335,861 votes (while President Kennedy won the state by 22,091), after which he helped his former law partner Richard Hughes win the governorship in 1962; by his own hand (depressed by his estrangement from Second Wife Nina Underwood, he garroted himself with an electric-shaver cord); in Princeton...
...would seem to be a first-rate launching platform for what he really wants to do: run next year against Nelson Rockefeller for Governor of New York. "I would be less than frank," said Frank last week, "if I didn't say that I was interested in the governorship. I would be flattered if the party wanted me or drafted me." But the civil rights and minority group votes do not come automatically-not even to a Roosevelt, as Brother Jimmy discovered last month when he was soundly trounced in the Los Angeles mayoralty election. And several civil rights...
...last refuge is patriotism, his more immediate goal seems to be the governorship of California. A recent poll shows him a solid favorite for the Republican nomination, with 33% as against 18% for Senator Thomas Kuchel, a "moderate." It's true that the "moderates" outpoll the "radicals" 50-45% in this same poll but a lead like that can vanish overnight--just ask Nelson Rockefeller...
...right wing, purged some of the National Committee's best staff people on the ground-real or imagined-that they were not trustworthy. And on a loftier level, while the Republican Party has some outstanding and attractive potential presidential candidates among Governors (Romney, Scranton, et al.), a governorship no longer seems as strong a springboard to national office as it used to be. Increasingly, voters seem to want national experience and exposure in their national candidates...