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Word: johnsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Men Who | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Men Who | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Men Who | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Johnson: Democratic Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Men Who | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Men Who | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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