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Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver was a glad-hander who never managed to look really glad. He was a campaigner who achieved a kind of glum sincerity even when his head was smothered under an outlandish coonskin cap. He was given to platitudes that put him foursquare in...
Yet for all his critics, and for all the sophisticated sorts who jeered at "The Keef," he was a great vote-getter with a vast store of plodding energy and a vaulting ambition. He wanted to become President of the U.S. He never made it - but even in his failure...
He ran for the Senate in 1948, tangled with Memphis Boss Edward H. Crump, who labeled Kefauver a "pet coon." Kefauver laboriously replied, "I may be a pet coon, but I'll never be Mr. Crump's pet coon." At his next campaign appearance he clapped a coonskin...
Crime & the Keef. Once in the Senate, Kefauver voted the party line, authored no major bills. But in 1951 he catapulted to fame and, thanks to national television, built himself a real political image. As chairman of a special Senate crime investigating committee, he dragged such diverse and unsavory characters...
Although the Boston project excited some controversy, most of the two-day debate on the space authorization bill was taken up by a wrangle over communications satellite research. Fifteen liberal Democratic Senators, led by the late Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, sponsored a resolution to require the privately-owned Communications...