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...still uncommitted states that can put him across. Items: ¶ At a National Democratic Club luncheon in Manhattan, Kennedy and his hosts, New York's Democratic leaders, were all smiles and compliments. One after another, the bigwigs pledged their support. "His strength," said Tammany's Carmine De Sapio, "has continued to magnify itself." And former Governor Averell Harriman (involved in a backstage battle with New York's Mayor Wagner for leadership of the delegation to the convention) sounded agreement. "Almost all of us think you will do more good for our party if you get the nomination...
...York City, two of the party's toughest old pros, Pennsylvania Governor David Lawrence and Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, held a high powwow (also present: onetime Illinois Kingmaker Jake Arvey) dedicated to the proposition that primaries are eyewash. De Sapio, like his good friend Harry Truman, favors the Symington candidacy. Lawrence let it be known that his heart still belongs to Adlai Stevenson ("the most capable man in either party to be President"), but those who talked to Lawrence thought they detected brain waves for Symington. Both bosses entertain strong private doubts about a fellow Catholic...
...Democrats whooped it up in like fashion. New York Democrats, at a big dinner at the Waldorf, were treated to the spectacle of Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio solemnly reading a "Nixon nomination-acceptance speech," patterned after 'Twas the Night Before Christmas...
...really hit his stride until he got to New York, center of what he sometimes calls "Northern bigotry." There, in a 40-hour whirlwind, he shook the hands of all Democratic factotums and factions, talked tactical politics with New York State Chairman Michael Prendergast and Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio. He rubbed shoulders with Negro and white officials in a reception thrown by New York's Mayor Wagner, made a speech to the largest Roman Catholic men's club in Brooklyn, conferred with wealthy Wall Streeters, and in total, stomped a path that would have done credit...
...imminent demise of De Sapio is a welcome sign that the state Democratic Party is recovering from the Rockefeller fiasco. In the past two years, De Sapio has done more harm than good for the party, both on the national and local levels. While Mayor Wagner is not the most forceful of politicians, he at least will not be tainted with the label of "boss." And as De Sapio has been decidedly anti-liberal, New Yorkers can now expect to see a resurgence of the Lehman-Finletter-Roosevelt wing of the party. The moribund condition of Democratic politics...