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...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...
...Dakota, Lawyer Joseph H. Botfum, 58-was sworn in on the Senate floor, replacing the late Republican Senator Francis Case. The diligent Dakotan helped found his state's first Young Republicans' chapter in 1934 and got Governor Archie Gubbrud's endorsement after rising to the lieutenant-governorship in 1960. No sooner was he in his seat than Bottum cast his first vote against a Democratic amendment to the NASA appropriations bill. Chuckled South Dakota's Senior Senator Karl Mundt: "It was a good start for a Republican...
Three and one-half years in the governorship have done nothing to lessen his imperturbable self-confidence, but they have added vastly to his knowledge of government and administration. While serving in appointive jobs under three Presidents -and suffering enormous frustrations under Eisenhower-Rockefeller learned one important lesson: that U.S. political power really rests with elective officials. In the New York governorship, he found an ideal vehicle for his talents and energies...