Word: nomi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt encouraged gullible Mr. Johnson to go to the Democratic Convention in Chicago last fortnight, put out feelers for the Vice-Presidential nomi nation, go down ignominiously with 16 others of the faithful who were sacrificed to Henry Wallace (see p. 12). Disillusioned Mr. Johnson crawled back to Washington. There he wrote a letter to "My Dear Mr. President," black with reminders that at the President's request he had passed up his last chance to resign with dignity when Henry Stimson was appointed; that "my Commander in Chief and longtime friend" now left no alternative but resignation...