Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duty." Johnson, the victim of a heart attack last summer, made it clear he thought his health was no handicap. Said he: "I have been putting in 15-and 16-hour days every day, including Saturday, during the last weeks of Congress." Did he consider Adlai Stevenson or Averell Harriman the best candidate? Replied Johnson: "The best candidate at the moment is Lyndon Johnson...
...Galloping to Truman's suite, Johnson found Harry ready to leave for his climactic news conference. Said Harry to Lyndon: "I'm opening this thing up so anybody can get it-including you." That was exactly what Harry Truman proceeded to do: by coming out for Averell Harriman, he set Lyndon Johnson up as a possible rallying point for Southern delegates with perhaps 200 precious votes. In the event of a deadlock between Harriman and Stevenson, any hopeful candidate would have to deal with Lyndon Johnson of Texas-a sharp trader who has been waiting for his chance...
...Suite 408 of the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, Averell Harriman and his lieuten ants sat looking at the face of Harry Truman on their television screen. When Truman named Harriman as his Democratic candidate, Ave glowed all over, murmured: "This is marvelous." Forty-five minutes later, Averell Harriman, wearing a grin so wide that it almost could be seen from behind, came out to face television himself. Making small clucking sounds all during his statement, Harriman exulted: "I am deeply moved by this mark of confidence from my old boss...
...snappin', cracklin', poppin' man from Missouri (TIME, Aug. 13), bring the 1956 Democratic Convention to life by twisting all the previous political equations. With Truman's twist, many Democrats were torn, e.g., Truman Biographer Jonathan Daniels of North Carolina, asked by Harry to support Harriman, replied mournfully: "I feel like a bastard at the family reunion. After you announced that you wouldn't run in 1952, you told me to go out and get Adlai Stevenson to run. Stevenson is still running, and I'm still running for Stevenson...
Although there were no immediate, crashing switches from Stevenson to Harriman, there were tremors in several delegations. Washington State, previously counted at 21 for Stevenson, five for Har-rinian, erupted when Delegation Chairman Henry P. Carstensen, already a Harriman man, declared that Truman's statement had had a "terrific impact" and left the delegation split even. Furious Stevenson delegates from Washington denied Carstensen's statement, began talking about ousting him as their chairman...