Word: rolvaag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minnesota, a Minneapolis Tribune survey of the gubernatorial race showed that Republican Harold LeVander has taken the lead, 51% to 45%, over Governor Karl Rolvaag, choice of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party...
Karl Fritjof Rolvaag is balding, jowly and dumpy, looks at least a decade older than his 53 years, and in public wears the bemused air of a Norwegian farmer lost in the big city. In his first term as Governor of Minne sota, Rolvaag seemed so ineffectual that an opinion poll last February gave him the unqualified approval of only 9% of the voters. In June he was summarily rejected even by his own Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which chose Lieut. Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith, 37, as its gubernatorial candidate. Last week, nonetheless, Rolvaag won the D.F.L. nomination...
...large measure the upset reflected Rolvaag's ability to communicate his middle-aged sense of outrage at being dumped by the party. Challenging Keith to a primary fight, he crisscrossed the state, protesting that he was being euchred out of the Statehouse by a young man's ambition. "Let the people decide," he demanded; and last week they did, giving Rolvaag 315,734 votes to Keith's 146,926. Hubert Humphrey, a founding member of D.F.L. who backed Keith after the June conclave, hustled to knit the party together for November, when Rolvaag's Republican opponent...
Switch or Lose. At the convention, Rolvaag delegates wore buttons proclaiming "I'd rather fight than switch" -to which Keith partisans' buttons replied: "I'd rather switch than lose." Though Keith led from the outset, he fell short of the required two-thirds majority until the 20th ballot. Humphrey, scrupulously neutral during the convention, came out of seclusion to embrace Keith, noted: "You can't live forever on the older generation...
...Rolvaag was embittered. "I got taken to the woodshed by my lieutenant governor," he said. And despite Humphrey's urgings of unity, the Governor would not rule out challenging Keith in the party primary in September. Any further D.F.L. feuding, of course, could only benefit Minnesota's Republicans, who at week's end had a marathon convention contest of their own before rallying around Political Novice Harold LeVander, 55, a South St. Paul attorney, as their gubernatorial candidate...