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Thornberry got the news of his appointment in the midst of a dinner party in Austin, when Johnson phoned him. "Homer," said the President am going to nominate you for the Supreme Court." Replied the overwhelmed Thornberry: "I hope I can deserve this confidence." Homer's wife Eloise was...
NINE weeks before the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Vice President Hubert Humphrey is in easy reach of a first ballot victory. 341 delegates are already committed to Humphrey and 995½ lean toward him but could conceivably turn elsewhere. Needed to nominate: 1,312. Senator Eugene McCarthy's 322...
> By August, Democratic and Republican leaders decide that all the talk about new politics and the need for change has made all the principal contenders obsolete. In Miami Beach, the Republicans nominate Jacob Javits and Edward Brooke. In Chicago, the Democrats pick Abe Fortas and Carl Stokes. The big issue...
That still left each of the 250 S.D.S. chapters free to do its own thing-including a little selfcriticism. One delegate strode down the aisle with a wastebasket on his head while a companion cried: "I nominate this trash can for national secretary." Workshops at the convention suggested a variety...
> Alabama's former Lieutenant Governor, James B. Allen, defeated Representative Armistead Selden to win the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat being vacated this year by Lister Hill, who is retiring. Since both Allen and Selden support former Governor George Wallace, they virtually ignored issues in their campaigns, relied...