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Tattered Coattails. Political coattails were next to worthless. Adlai Stevenson had depended on strong Democratic state tickets to help him win; only in Missouri, where the Democratic ticket was led by able Senator Tom Hennings. did "Operation Reverse Coattails" succeed. Oregon's Republican Douglas McKay chatted endlessly at the...
The immensity of the Eisenhower triumph made it inconceivable that he would not carry other Republicans with him. But millions of U.S. voters split their tickets in an astonishing personal tribute to the President. Thus, while Ike won Washington State handily and missed only by a hairsbreadth in Missouri, Washington...
The Big Switch. The second ballot started, and Kennedy surged handily ahead of Kefauver. The Missouri delegation rushed away to caucus. Connecticut's Bailey grabbed Missouri's Senator Tom Hennings by the lapels and shouted a plea that he turn his Humphrey votes to Kennedy. But Hennings, aware...
Missouri's Hennings was seen whispering with Massachusetts' Representative John McCormack, who soon spun and came rushing through the crowd toward the chairman's platform. Yelled McCormack: "Sam! Sam! Missouri!" Sam Rayburn, who had been calmly watching the waving standards before deciding which state to recognize, called...
For two days in the Senate last week a dogged trio of liberal Democrats-Missouri's Tom Hennings, New York's Herbert Lehman and Illinois' Paul Douglas-urged the Senate to blast the Administration's Civil Rights bill out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Argued Paul...