Word: lovelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rules-change fight, the proposal for a change had been announced openly at a news conference by Representative Charles Brown, representing Senator Stuart Symington; was not categorically denied as a future possibility by John Connally, representing Johnson; and had been reported as a possibility by Governor Herschel Loveless of Iowa as chairman of the Rules Committee. Thus, as any TIME reporter at the Los Angeles convention can tell you, my story was not "obviously made up out of whole cloth...
...them. The Lawrence story quoting Johnson supporters as advocating a rule change is such an example. How false it was could have been revealed by a simple check of the Johnson manager, Speaker Rayburn or myself. This was not done. Subsequently we took the time to check with Governor Loveless and he confirmed the fact that no Johnson supporter ever discussed the matter with him. This seems to be a case of reporter fatigue...
AGRICULTURE : Iowa's Governor Herschel Loveless, Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman and Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson, all of whom had hoped to be tapped for Vice President; also Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey...
Iowa's Governor Herschel Loveless and Kansas' Governor George Docking trod the garden path to Jack's suite at the Biltmore, ready to ditch their own favorite-son commitments in time to throw their delegates onto the Kennedy train. But Loveless had heard rumors that Minnesota's Orville Freeman might be the chosen one, and suggested that the whole vice-presidential business be dropped so he could concentrate on running for the U.S. Senate. Jack Kennedy advised Loveless, who is 49, to keep himself in readiness. "It has to be a Midwesterner, Herschel," said Jack. "Just...
...niche-or, more correctly, a wall scratch-in history (41 first-ballot votes for Meyner), but lost his high hopes for a Cabinet job. "I want my 25 minutes on television," Meyner confessed in a moment of greater vanity than wisdom. "I'm entitled to it." Herschel Loveless, Iowa's Golden Bantam Governor and favorite son, who withdrew to support Kennedy, warned a pack of restless Iowa delegates: "You go for Stevenson, and you're dead." Husked back one delegate: "You're looking at a bunch of corpses." Final count from Iowa: 21½ votes...