Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Four-Letter Word. Scranton thus got an invitation from Ike to talk politics at the former President's Gettysburg farm. Scranton knew what was in the wind. But by now he had fallen in love with his House job, had no ambitions about the governorship. Scranton listened politely to Ike, but kept shaking his head. Finally, just as Scranton was about to leave, Ike unleashed a cruncher. "Bill," he said, "this all comes down to a four-letter word-duty...
...state ADA had made in not endorsing Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy '54 for U.S. Senator. Beer, professor of Government, also castigated the ADA for its "timidity" in falling to endorse Democrat Francis X. Bellotti. Bellotti is contending with Francis W. "The Corruption Fighter" Perry, a Republican, for the lieutenant governorship...
...want to be that vote." For his part. Seely-Brown favors medical care for the aged, but he fears that the Administration's proposal for financing it through social security could bankrupt the whole retirement system. He concentrates his fire on Ribicoff's job jumping, from the governorship to HEW and now to the Senate campaign-all within two years. "Ribicoff made too fast a turn-around." says Seely-Brown. "If he gets into the Senate, maybe he won't like that, and he'll go after something else. I've never run away from...
...last week it became clear that Tennessee would hear more from Clement−lots more. At age 42, he made a political comeback by beating two other men in a primary, which virtually assures him the governorship in November. He Won the way he always has−with words. Clement loves words−particularly the first person singular. In one 30-minute campaign speech he mentioned himself exactly 213 times. In the same vein, he recalled to a Centerville audience that "I came down here as a boy and cut a right of way 20 feet wide and dug holes...
Proud of the fact that he was born in a log cabin in the Indian Territory, Kerr likes to recall that he set a big goal early in life: he wanted a family, a million dollars and the governorship -in that order. He succeeded-in that order. He was an attorney in 1926 when he hooked up with a drilling firm, soon afterward was devoting himself to some high-style and successful oil exploration. His move into politics was equally successful, and so was his one term (in 1942) as Governor of Oklahoma...