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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...
...drop his favorite-son role at the end of the first ballot, or even sooner, and swing the majority of his 81 votes to Kennedy. Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman, keeper of Hubert Humphrey's strength, admitted that his squad was rooting for Kennedy. Iowa Governor Herschel Loveless has already made up his mind to forgo a nomination as favorite son and to announce for Kennedy, and Kansas' Governor George Docking was ready to throw his delegation behind Kennedy before the end of the first ballot. With such freshening support, it was hard even for some Johnson...
...Tears. In two states the bandwagon nearly overshot its goal. Some Iowa delegates got hot because of Kennedyite attempts to get a public commitment out of Kennedy-leaning Governor Herschel Loveless; so enraged were some delegates that a few fell prey to the sweet-talk of Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird, when they came calling. In Colorado a critical casualty turned up at the delegates' convention in Durango, where Kennedy forces ganged up on Lyndon Johnson Supporter Edwin C. Johnson, who wanted to be named to the delegation. A three-time Governor and a thrice-elected...
Iowa (26): First-ballot bow to Governor Herschel Loveless, a Kennedy supporter and vice-presidential hopeful. On the second ballot Kennedy has a rock-bottom count of 20, Symington...