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...obligingly voted for a fellow Southerner who seemed to possess all those qualities Presidents are supposed to possess, and at least acknowledged the fact that there were some things wrong with our country. To me, McCarthy was some crazy clown who was to the liberals what Harold Stassen was to the conservatives. I figured that McCarthy was running because he enjoyed the attention and had nothing else better to do at the time. To me he was an egotistical spoiler...
...bound to do violence to the art, to turn it into a game where some people lose out. Contemporary political fiction suffers from this affliction: many American writers have grown self-satisfied, and this persistent complacency has lent their works about as much novelty and excitement as a Harold Stassen campaign address. When that happens, everyone is a sure loser...
...from Philadelphia to plead my innocence in this case. I am an attorney and will defend myself," said the distinguished gentleman to Indianapolis Magistrate Phillip Bayt. Few motorists travel 600 miles to fight a speeding ticket (82 m.p.h. in a 55 m.p.h. zone), but veteran Presidential Candidate Harold Stassen, 68, assured skeptical court officials that he had no other business in Indianapolis. With Stassen's arresting officer ill and unable to testify, the judge dismissed all charges, and the five-time Republican loser went home with a victory at last...
...Nelson Rockefeller begins his fourth presidential campaign today, it is tempting to laugh him off as a rich man's Harold Stassen. But he is more substantial than that, and therefore more dangerous...
...Minnesota Republicans, once intensely conservative, have supported the liberal wing of the G.O.P. for more than a generation. The shift started with Harold E. Stassen, who took over as Governor in 1938, when he was 31. He later became a figure of fun as a perennial presidential candidate, but one of Stassen's many state reforms accounts for much of the honesty of Minnesota politics today. Stassen pushed through a comprehensive civil service law that abolished patronage. "By taking politics out of the back room and engaging thousands in political activity, from women to college students," observes Author Neal...