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In the course of his investigation, Kefauver also made some important Democratic enemies. His probe into corruption in Illinois cost Majority Leader Scott Lucas his Senate seat.
Yet despite his enemies, Kefauver was riding high-and he knew it. Late in 1951 he told a friend, "Right today, I have a better chance of becoming President than I had of becoming Senator when I decided to run." Shaking hands and pleading for help ("I am Estes Kefauver...
Sundry Other Evils. On the first two convention ballots, Kefauver held solid leads, sat drinking beer in a hotel room and said, "I've never been more delighted in my life." But that was the crest of his career. On the third roll-call ballot, the big-city Democratic...
Kefauver tried to rev up a campaign again for 1956-largely through a spate of investigations into Dixon-Yates, pornography, black market babies, juvenile delinquency, and sundry other sins. He lost again to Stevenson. But in a dramatic tussle for the vice-presidential nomination, the gawky Tennessee lawyer managed to...
He returned to the Senate, managed to win a few headlines with investigations ranging from the drug industry to steel pricing to boxing and baseball. In 1962, when Justice Charles Evans Whittaker retired from the Supreme Court, Kefauver's name was mentioned as a replacement, but the New Frontier...