Word: mcmath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McMATH Little Rock...
...TIME is glad to note that ex-Marine McMath says he does not swear...
McClellan Adviser Q. L. Porter recalls an early strategy conference: "John said, 'If McMath wants a fight, he can sure get one with me.' I said, 'John, if you go in there with that attitude, he's gonna whip the pants off you. That's the only way people can ever beat you-by making you mad. And here you sit in my office, and you're mad already, and the campaign hasn't even started...
...Well, do you know John McClellan went through that whole campaign without ever saying the name Sid McMath? That changed him. He saw what he could gain by keeping calm. Not that he became a calm person, but he practiced calmness because he could see its virtue...
McClellan beat McMath by 37,000 votes and returned to Washington. It had taken him years, but he was finally able to live up to the code set forth by the preacher of his boyhood days: to know himself, control himself, and deny himself. John McClellan would be a lesser man if he had never had problems. He is the stronger for overcoming them. His conduct at the labor-investigating committee shows...