Word: sparksman
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...somewhat ironic that the list of onetime Democrat "I Like Ike" for president men includes Harry Truman, Jake Arvey, James Roosevelt, and John S. Sparksman. If these men had ever prevailed upon Eisenhower to run as a Democrat, there would be no question about the outcome of this election. However, Eisenhower preferred not to be the political handmaid of a president who could call the Fullbright Report on RFC corruption "asinine" or who has still refused to fire Harry "Deep Freeze" Vaughan, Wallace "Grain Speculation" Graham, or Donald Dawson who, as presidential patronage boss with power to hire and fire...
...only slanted but inaccurate. Nixon was introduced not by Lodge, who never spoke, but by Herter.) On the other hand, Sparkman has been kept pretty far in the background. Do the "liberals" in the Stevenson camp really think they can kill the filibuster or legisislate FEPC with Sparksman presiding over the Senate? Is it "honest discussion" to raise such a furor over Nixon, while deliberately disregarding the alternative...
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