Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his frequent trips to Southern capitals in the last year. Last May, when Southern anger over the school desegregation guidelines was at its height. Humphrey visited the Southern governors to soothe their feelings. The highlight of this effort came in Georgia, where he put his arm around Lester Maddox and called him "a good Democrat...
Impatient & Restless. In February, when the Liberals' Lester Pearson, 70, announced his plans to retire after five years in office, no fewer than 20 candidates went after his job, including eight Cabinet ministers. Trudeau was only one of several strong contenders (TIME, Feb. 16), but he quickly drew ahead of the field. After waging a tireless cross-country campaign, he came to last week's Liberal Party convention in Ottawa as a front runner. At week's end Trudeau was elected party leader on the fourth ballot by a vote of 1,203 to 954 over...
...McCarthy, there were some defections in Kennedy's favor. Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, previously a Johnson supporter, announced himself a free agent. Maine Governor Kenneth Curtis publicly recalled his admiration for Kennedy, while Vermont Governor Philip Hoff came out for him officially, as did Massachusetts Democratic Chairman Lester Hyman. In Oregon, Representative Edith Green became a leader of Kennedy's campaign group. New Jersey Governor Richard Hughes, a Johnson loyalist, admitted that he would have "a very difficult time" holding his party organization together...
...storied acumen as a politician, Lyndon Johnson seems incongruously inept at handling his own candidacy for reelection. Last week he waited until 17 minutes before the filing deadline to notify Massachusetts State Democratic Chairman Lester Hyman that neither he nor any stand-in would oppose Eugene McCarthy in the April 30 presidential primary. Not only is the Massachusetts party organization confused and bitter as a result, but under the terms of a new state law, Senator McCarthy is also guaranteed all Massachusetts' 72 delegate votes on the first ballot at the convention...
President Johnson through an aide yesterday asked Massachusetts Democratic State Committee Chairman Lester B. Hyman not to enter his name as a candidate for president and to refrain from entering a stand-in. Hyman complied with the request...