Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor James Plemon Coleman. Kennedy rolled through the Midwest, where his Senate vote against rigid, 90%-of-parity farm supports had cost him the vice-presidential nomination, and came out with the support of Kansas' up-and-coming Democratic Governor George Docking. Says a top Oklahoma party strategist: "I have been moving around the state for the last couple of months, just looking and picking my teeth. Right now, Kennedy's making all the touchdowns." Says a Democratic National Committee official: "Well, if we held a convention next month, it would be Kennedy, period...
...Jersey Republicans, who knew that Alex Smith was anxious to retire after 2½ terms, hoped to select his successor without a bloodletting primary. Irritating them also was Shanley's lightweight claim to political fame. In four years at the White House, the onetime Stassen-for-President strategist has tried to influence patronage, has riled Smith and Senator .Clifford Case by interfering with their federal appointments. His announcement virtually guaranteed that New Jersey's fractured Republican Party will pull itself together to clobber...
...pushing defense strategist said that he had found a willing listener. It was after he flew to Texas and talked with Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, he explained, that Congress appropriated an extra billion dollars for the Air Force. Said Arthur: "The day Congress acted, Johnson phoned me and said, 'Arthur, this is a billion-dollar phone call, and now you stay out of Texas. You've cost the taxpayers a billion dollars.' I told him, 'It will cost $4 billion a year to run this right, so you've done...
...slogan endured, despite the fact that in the 29 presidential elections since 1840 it has been wrong nearly half (twelve elections) the time. Cracked Democratic Strategist Jim Farley, after Franklin Roosevelt swept 46 states in 1936: "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont...
...Whisper. There were, in fact, many gasps and a few shudders when Brownell became Attorney General. He was a professional politician entering a Justice Department already reeking and rocking from too many professional politicians. Brownell had been the strategist for the presidential campaigns of Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; he was the hotel-suite mastermind who liked to note that he had never spent so much as a night on a campaign train. Politician Brownell was treated like one of the boys when he came up for confirmation by the politicians of the U.S. Senate. They went through the motions...