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...vote figure by which John Kennedy defeated him eight years ago. Yet with 31,085,267 popular votes to Humphrey's 30,760,301, Nixon still claimed merely 43.5% of the electorate's approval - the lowest percentage since Woodrow Wilson, battling both Republican William Howard Taft and Bull Mooser Teddy Roosevelt, won with 41.9% of the vote...
First, business must arouse anti-union feeling among the public. "Before we can take action to introduce legislation seeking major labor law reform," said an NAM vice-president, "it is necessary to create the kind of favorable public climate which resulted in the Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin Acts." According to plan, the public support and efforts of Congressional conservatives will push through the Congress a bill to abolish the Labor Board, which a Republican President will then sign into...
...laws as unconstitutional seemed to support Beard's contentions.) "Beardism," in any case, provoked savage attacks. The Marion Star, an Ohio newspaper owned by President-to-be Warren G. Harding headlined: SCAVENGERS, HYENA-LIKE, DESECRATE THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD PATRIOTS WE REVERE. Ex-President William Howard Taft observed acidly that Beard would no doubt have preferred a Constitution drafted by "dead beats, demagogues and cranks who never had any money...
...months, George Wallace had been casting about for a running mate, often in pretty strange waters. He considered "Colonel" Harland Sanders, the fried-chicken king ("It's finger-lickin' good"). He looked over Paul Harvey, a right-wing newscaster, former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, and Orval Faubus, the ex-Governor of Arkansas. He nearly chose A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, the former Governor and Senator from Kentucky, but Chandler proved too moderate on the race issue. Last week, after jokingly warning reporters that "I'm full of surprises," he announced his decision: retired Air Force General...
...furled umbrella and powerful cigar are familiar to every newsman in Washington. He is a regular participant in the lunchtime poker-dice games at the bar of the Metropolitan Club. His counsel has been sought-or pointedly ignored-by every President since William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson often talked out his problems with him during the Paris peace talks that ended World War I.F.D.R. once regarded him as a "Hoover agent," twice tried unsuccessfully to get him fired. Both Jack and Bobby Kennedy submitted the manuscripts of their first books to him for critical comment. To his secretary, Laura Waltz...