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...Manhattan, the man who is responsible for cultivating Harriman's political future retired early in his apartment at 37 Washington Square West. Harriman's head political gardener, Carmine Gerard De Sapio, sachem of the Tamawa political club, leader of the First Assembly District South, Boss of Tammany Hall,* National Committeeman, New York Secretary of State, who will control the largest state bloc of delegate votes at next year's national convention, went to bed with a slight fever. Carmine De Sapio* had the summer sniffles...
...sneezes and wheezes aside, what hefty (6 ft. 1 in., 196 lbs.) Carmine De Sapio says and does for the next few months will be topics for endless speculation by politicians and pundits. For De Sapio's political skills will go a long way toward deciding whether the Democratic Derby is to be a real horse race or a Stevenson walkaway. As Harriman's political trainer, and as a man who has spent a lifetime preparing himself for the part of kingmaker, De Sapio is one of the most fascinating figures on the U.S. political landscape...
Whistle, Whistle. If this was not exactly sailing Harriman's hat into the ring, it was at least nudging it considerably past the taw line. Carmine De Sapio will lead-and control-the New York delegation to the 1956 national convention, and he is not a man to waste his time on token political gestures. New York's political sons (by reason of the state's 90-odd delegate votes and financial resources) have a habit of becoming serious contenders in presidential nominating politics...
Moreover, De Sapio has real talking points. Harriman showed last year that he could win an election over tough opposition; he is now operating from the position of the country's most important governorship. Adlai Stevenson's electoral votes in 1952 showed that he could lose in 39 states; since 1952 he has had no sustaining position in public life...
...Washington De Sapio's remarks set the Stevenson-stacked cadre of the Democratic national committee to whistling through a stiff upper lip. Staffers let it be known that they thought De Sapio was hedging his bets so as to have a Harriman boom ready on the chance that Stevenson may decide not to run. Stevenson has already decided to run, and De Sapio should know...