Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary punch. There will always be more to take their places, but as of this week, six Democrats had emerged from the 1958 elections looking fittest. The six: Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, California's Governor-elect Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, and New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner...
...Lyndon Johnson was on his LBJ Ranch in Texas answering telephone calls from newly elected Democrats, greeting visitors, wheeling and dealing as the Democratic Party's leader-in-action. Pat Brown, who needs to get himself known outside California, was off on a get-acquainted tour, visiting such elder Democrats as Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman and Harry Truman. Stu Symington was vacationing in Puerto Rico; his strategy has been to keep quiet and let his competitors knock one another off. And Jack Kennedy was campaigning in Alaska-just as he has been campaigning ever since 1956 in a marathon...
...days later Brown was off on his cross-country get-acquainted tour, seeing top Democratic leaders, paying his respects to Stevenson, Harriman, Meyner and Truman. An omission that may prove to be unfortunate: the Texas ranch of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, a man who knows most of the party answers and a presidential possibility in his own right...
...Johnson: Democratic Father...
...Democrats industriously denying presidential aspirations, Lyndon Johnson sounds most as if he means it. Of all the prospects, he has the weightiest reasons for meaning it: 1) in 1955 he suffered a heart attack more massive than Dwight Eisenhower's; 2) he can be classed as a Southerner at a time when the Democratic Party is less likely than ever before to nominate anyone from below the Mason-Dixon...