Word: kefauveritis
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Postcards from Moscow. Kefauver began pointing for 1956. Increasing the number of speeches he made for fees, he paid off the debt-estimated at $30,000 -incurred by his 1952 campaign. He held his place in the Senate by carrying 91 of Tennessee's 95 counties against a tough...
Estes Kefauver's travels brought no great contributions to U.S. foreign policy. He remained, as for years before, an enthusiast of Clarence Streit's dreamy Atlantic Union, under which the U.S. would give up significant rights of sovereignty to participate with other free nations in a constitutional federation...
What Kefauver's journeys did bring was a blizzard of postcards and notes from all points of the world to all parts of the U.S. To Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson came one beginning: "Dear Lyndon. I am at the airport waiting to get on a plane for Helsinki...
Nettles from Adlai. In 1956 Kefauver had to fight a personal as well as a political battle. Wife Nancy, 45, who had campaigned with him in 1952, was at best unenthusiastic this time. Kefauver's four children (three girls and an adopted boy) were extremely unhappy about Daddy'...
He did just that, and his win over the favored Stevenson in Minnesota again demonstrated Kefauver's great strength in the farm states. After that the campaign got rougher-and the two men who are now running mates said things they wish they had swallowed. Directly or indirectly, Kefauver...