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...know." Not that it was likely to make much difference. "If this were not a presidential year, I might have a chance," he admitted. "As it is, every four years, about 20,000 extra people crawl out of their Hudson Gothic woodwork up here to vote for William McKinley." From at least one supporter, Vidal prefers silent devotion-"Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has endorsed me, but we don't dare have her appear; the Roosevelt name is still murder up here...
...Freely Confess." Republicans got in the first telling thrust. After huddling with Nixon, Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen proposed a bill to restore what Ike's message had called the "two major deletions" in the civil rights bill that Congress passed last April: extra federal money for states, localities and school districts working toward desegregation, and a permanent commission to combat discrimination in hiring by Government contractors. When Democrats accusingly pointed out that Dirksen had voted against both proposals last spring, he oracularly confided: "I freely confess my sins of omission and commission...
Maternal Grandfather John Hay was private secretary to Lincoln and McKinley's Secretary of State. Wadsworth's father James served two terms as a U.S. Senator from New York, plus 18 years as a Congressman, co-authored the 1940 peacetime draft...
...Please, Mother," one of her sons once begged, "if someone offers you Mount McKinley as a gift, don't try to move it"; see ART, Collector's Passion...
...fully equipped 19th century pharmacy, and a Victorian railroad depot. Some of the buildings had to be dismantled to be moved and painstakingly reassembled at Shelburne. Such difficulties do not deter Mrs. Webb. "Please, Mother,'' one of her five children once begged, "if someone offers you Mount McKinley as a gift for the museum, don't try to move...