Word: keefe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was a real shock to most observers who had figured Estes Kefauver as presidentially deader than Daniel Boone. Harry Truman, who has resented Kefauver since the 1951 crime hearings, is aware of the Keef's continued strength. That is one reason Truman has recently taken to the stump in praise of Stevenson...
...calmer estimate would give him 250). The White House and the state bosses still oppose him. Their reasons: 1) he is too inexperienced; 2) he is not really so popular as his publicity would seem to indicate. At the White House and elsewhere in Washington, the anti-Keef arguments run thus: he has been opposed by candidates of national stature in only three primaries (this conveniently overlooks the New Hampshire primary, in which he beat Harry Truman, on the grounds that the President was not actually entered in the race). Of the three, Keef won only one (Nebraska), lost...
...Keef v. Ike? On the other hand, the Democratic leaders may decide to let Keef run if Ike is the G.O.P. candidate. The Democrats believe they have less chance of beating Ike in any kind of campaign, and they may conclude that their last hope will lie in the kind of slam-bang campaign that Keef can put over...
...foxy head under Keef's coonskin cap is the knowledge that he cannot win the nomination without support from the top party leaders. On the hustings, he attacks political machines, but when he approaches the White House door he treads as softly as Daniel Boone stalking...
Last week Keef saw Truman and then told reporters that the President was neutral. He did not complain that Truman should support him because there were more delegates in the Kefauver column than any other. Said Kefauver: "I think that [neutrality] is the proper attitude for him to take...