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...smell of battle was strongest in Detroit's Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, where representatives of 14 states gathered last week for the Democratic Midwest Conference. All the candidates, or their representatives, were on hand, along with such non-Midwesterners as New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner and Oregon's Wayne Morse. The smiling face of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson beamed from posters in the hotel corridors, with arrows underneath pointing to the suite where a hospitable supply of Jack Daniel's whiskey flowed. Moreover, sagacious House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 78, was on hand to exploit...
Wisconsin was obviously on his mind when Rayburn belittled state primaries. "Never thought much of them," he rasped. And there was a strong whiff of stop-Kennedy in his not-so-chance remarks about Bob Meyner, who has vice-presidential ambitions and 41 New Jersey delegate votes to back them up. As an Easterner and a former Roman Catholic, Meyner could never hope for a spot on Kennedy's ticket, but he might fit nicely into a double bill with Lyndon Johnson. Purred Rayburn: "We're not going around promising anything to anybody. But in my book...
...Missouri's Democratic Presidential Hopeful Stuart Symington, Harry Truman's Air Force Secretary from 1947-50, charged in a speech on the Senate floor that "this Administration is now, in effect, planning that this nation become a second-rate power." New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner told a Democratic gathering in Manhattan that as a result of the Administration's "bankrupt leadership," the U.S. is now "dancing to Russia's tune...
...ballot. Future targets: Michigan's 51 votes, officially open to persuasion last week after Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams admitted that he does not have "any chance" of a place on the ticket; New Jersey's 41 votes, now of little use to once-hopeful Governor Robert Meyner. On the strength of a Wisconsin popular victory, Kennedy backers in New Jersey would put on the pressure for a switch away from Favorite Son Meyner; Michigan's powerful United Auto Workers Union might be ready to urge Soapy aboard the Kennedy bandwagon. With these blocs...
Truman's first job was to introduce the seven Democratic presidential possibles, and he plainly wore his heart on his sleeve. He breezed lightly over California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the spotlight of public interest"), and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams ("in the forefront of enlightened social legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice...