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...repeatead aphorism among his supporters that in the year 2000 Jerry Brown will be barely the age Ronald Reagan is today. But by the year 2000 Brown may have run unsuccessfully for the presidency more times than Harold Stassen. Americans may tremble at the thought of Jerry and Linda living together in the White House. Still it is healthy, out in California, to have a politician who believes politics is more than merely "art of the possible...
June 24: As candidates scramble for last minute support before the nominating conventions, Harold Stassen, with three committed delegates, is termed key to Republican contest. Campaigning for the crucial gay vote, Kennedy drives a male campaign worker safely across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan...
...blazing autumn sun. Dixieland bands strutted down walkways, and characters in Indian headdresses, space-shuttle caps and Abe Lincoln garb wandered about. Under an Australian pine by a swimming pool, a stocky old gentleman in a rumpled blue suit discoursed on farm policy. He said his name was Harold Stassen and he was once again running for President...
...Harold Stassen got one vote. Another cattle show was over...
...might be thought by any observer from that region of the country known as "Away" that the Chamber had rudely refused to curtail its customary order of business because its members figured Nixon's hopes were only slightly more realistic than Harold Stassen's. My guess, however, is that these New Hampshire Republicans knew he was going to win. They did not approve of anyone, even a member of their own party, who wanted to associate himself with the Federal Government, and they intended to show their feelings while they had the chance...