Word: patting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown pondered the question of taking out a hunting license, headed east this week to talk it over with Harry Truman, Stevenson and other officers of the Democratic Rod & Gun Club...
...shares with Pennsylvania the party's second-strongest honors (first: New York with 114). And since taking office nine months ago, California's able, amiable Governor Edmund G. Brown has been wooed like a Spanish infanta for those votes. Every major candidate has gone West to learn "Pat" Brown's intentions, and Brown has parried them all with the answer that he will lead California's delegation to the convention as a favorite son (not to be confused with an all-out presidential candidate) and see what happens. Last week, urged by his advisers to proclaim...
...sniffles not quite defeated even after eight days at the La Quinta, Calif, desert home of his friend George Allen, the President of the U.S. clearly hated to leave. Invited back to California by Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, Dwight Eisenhower thought of the duties that face him for the rest of his term of office, said almost wistfully: "Maybe I will, after 15 months." But Ike had to get back to Washington. There was plenty...
...Kennedy and Brown cut each other up too much in the preconvention campaigning, then the call might go to still another Catholic-say Steve McNichols. Indeed, so well defined has the Brown-McNichols rivalry become that McNichols backers have a favorite song: "Oh, we'll hang Pat Brown to a sour apple tree...
...Screen. Returning to California, Pat Brown still seemed far from discouraged. His dutiful state party officials announced that an official Brown-for-President organization would be set up some time soon, tagged him "one of the top three of the top ten potential candidates." Said Brown: "I guess that puts me in the winter book. If I entered as a favorite son, I couldn't get on television...