Word: hymans
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President Johnson through an aide yesterday asked Massachusetts Democratic State Committee Chairman Lester B. Hyman not to enter his name as a candidate for president and to refrain from entering a stand-in. Hyman complied with the request...
...move came as a surprise to most Massachusetts politicians, who immediately began organizing a write-in campaign. Hyman had spent three months trying to persuade Johnson to allow his name to be entered on the ballot. Under a new state law the chairman of each political party is required to enter the name of the man he considers the candidate for president...
Meanwhile, Massachusetts Democratic State Committee Chairman Lester S. Hyman is frantically trying to negotiate a compromise between various leaders, but thus far has failed...
Teacher-in-Chief. Nor is that all. Cornell Political Scientist Clinton Rossiter once noted that the President must also serve as a national "scoutmaster, Delphic oracle, hero of the silver screen [today, that would read 'TV tube'] and father of the multitudes." In addition, says Historian Sidney Hyman, he must possess "animal energy, a physical capacity for long and sustained attention to detail, the power to endure bores," as well as "a will to decide," and a "sense of tragedy" that results when men seek to do good, but inadvertently achieve evil ends...
Lester S. Hyman, chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Massachusetts, who was not invited to the breakfast session, appeared a half hour after it began "to say hello," and hastily departed...