Word: successorship
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...little to worry about from a Republican President prohibited by the Constitution from running again, used this year's session to prepare for Election Year 1958-and beyond that, 1960. The Eisenhower and Old Guard branches of the Republican Party were already fighting over the 1960 successorship. Even the individual leaders of the Senate-Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson and California Republican William Knowland-were moving ahead with their own personal plans for the White House in '60. Against such strong political tides, Dwight Eisenhower could make little headway with his theory of the President as a congressional adviser...
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