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ATTORNEY GENERAL: Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff, Kennedy campaign strategist; or Denver Attorney Byron ("Whizzer") White, national chairman of Citizens for Kennedy...
After a soothing visit from Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff, one of John F. Kennedy's top political envoys, Truman last week announced that he would campaign for Kennedy this autumn, and "tell the truth about things as I see them."* Was he planning to do the kind of whistle-stop campaigning he did in 1948? No, said Harry Truman, he was "too old for that." Did his decision to campaign for Kennedy mean that Jack was ready after all? Said Truman: "The Democratic Convention decided that...
...rival methods reached no conclusion. But Connecticut's state welfare department last week took positive action. It issued a list of the 25 trade-named drugs (see box) most commonly prescribed for welfare recipients, and ordered doctors to prescribe by general name "whenever possible." Said Governor Abraham Ribicoff: "The state is not going to pay through the nose for brand-name drugs...
...Segregation of public facilities is evil, he says, but "private preference" is different. "When Dr. Bunche complains because he can't get into the West Side Tennis Club, that just obscures the issue. The Jews are just as bad. They want to get into the country club. Abe Ribicoff has gotten to be governor of Connecticut, and they worry about the country club...
...couldn't get a baby sitter"). Di Salle hurried him upstairs to a guest bedroom. There they were joined by Ohio Democratic Chairman William L. Coleman and Kennedy's new strategist, Connecticut Democratic Chairman John Bailey, on loan from Connecticut's Ken nedyite Governor Abraham Ribicoff...