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...DIVIDE EACH STATE INTO ELECTORAL DISTRICTS, similar to congressional districts, with one electoral vote apiece. Under a plan sponsored by South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, each state in addition would have two statewide electoral votes. His plan, says Mundt, would diminish "the present inordinate power of organized pressure groups." Among the objections: state legislatures would be tempted to gerrymander electoral districts...
...Senator, was the obvious and traditional choice this January to lead Teddy up to the rostrum where he signed the oath book and officially became a United States Senator. Nobody felt any embarrassment at this or any of the other unlikely combinations at the rostrum-Dodd and Ribicoff, or Mundt and McGovern-for the ritual expressed silently what Mike Mans-field said after it was over: "Now you are just as important...
...literally: it was Stevenson's '52 campaign that inspired him to quit his position as professor of History and Government at Dakota Wesley, and to become the party's executive secretary. By intensive campaigning, he managed to obtain two terms in the U.S. House, a close loss to Karl Mundt in 1960, and his victory, "not an overwhelming mandate," over Joe Bottum last year...
SOUTH DAKOTA'S Karl Mundt, ranking Republican on the Senate Government Operations subcommittee, told newsmen that the committee would investigate any "personal financial interest" that "people at the Pentagon" might have had in the award of the TFX contract. Mundt specifically excluded Defense Secretary McNamara, later explained: "Everyone knows about McNamara. He's lived in a goldfish bowl ever since he took office. No one questions his self-interest in this matter." But no matter, McNamara took Mundt's comments as an imputation against his honesty, insisted on giving the subcommittee a statement of his financial holdings...
...committee for three years (1957-60), accompanied McNamara to a private meeting with McClellan. Kennedy explained that he was there "just as a friend." Their mission: to supply McClellan with some tough questions to ask the military brass. McClellan said he would use the questions. Complained Subcommittee Member Karl Mundt: "There's a little question about propriety. It's a funny deal...