Word: kefauveritis
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Like Notre Dame. Bobby got his taste of the political big league in Jack's unsuccessful 1956 bid for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. Rehashing the hectic scene in Chicago when Jack came within 38½ votes of beating Estes Kefauver, Bobby recalls: "I said right there, we should...
* Many a vice-presidential nominee has failed to swing his home state to his ticket. Examples: Illinois' Adlai E. Stevenson (grandfather of the sometime presidential candidate) in 1900, New York's Franklin Roosevelt in 1920, Iowa's Henry Wallace in 1940, California's Earl Warren in...
Even many of Kefauver's supporters expected Taylor to beat him, in the stirred-up atmosphere of sit-ins and Negro demands for more equality. Only a few days before the primary, the Scripps-Howard Memphis Commercial Appeal, pro-Taylor, made a survey, predicted Taylor would win. The prediction...
Denial of Backwardness. As expected, Negroes turned out in force for Kefauver. For the first time since Reconstruction, large numbers of Negroes lined up to vote in Fayette County (TIME, Aug. 8). "All I know is," said one rural Negro, looking for the place to deposit his ballot, "I want...
Democrats in Washington happily interpreted Kefauver's lopsided victory as a sign that the strong Democratic platform plank on civil rights was not going to hurt them seriously, at least in the middle states. Added a pleased and triumphant Estes Kefauver: "It is clear that the detractors of the...