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Three members of his "brain trust"-Charles P. Taft, Ralph Robey and Earl Taylor-arrived from Topeka, to help polish up his July 23 acceptance speech. Senator Carey announced that, though they had not discussed any other solution to the farm problem, he and Nominee Landon had agreed that a permanent system of Federal bounties was to be deplored...
...Landon himself once made significant news when for the first time in the 1936 campaign he played the politician's trick of picking up a rival's catch phrase, giving it an ironic twist. Planning to stop at a Greeley, Colo. rodeo on his way back to Topeka for a special session of Kansas' Legislature this week, the Republican nominee was told that he would be driven around Greeley in a landau once owned by Mrs. Horace ("Baby Doe") Tabor. "A landau," smiled he, "just a horse & buggy for a horse & buggy candidate...
...Topeka one evening Governor Landon, his wife, mother-in-law, three children and nurse climbed into a private railroad car furnished by a Union Pacific official, rolled off toward Colorado. Two Pullmans carried the Press. At every stop there were several hundred proud Kansans waiting to cheer the second Kansan ever nominated for the Presidency.- "Hyah, Alf!" cried they as Nominee Landon appeared on the platform, grinning and waving, leaning down to pump outstretched hands. "It's mighty nice of you to come down to the station," drawled he to some. With others he exchanged news about the wheat...
...Landon family was to spend the summer. In the big, low, rambling ranch-house that afternoon newshawks found the Republican nominee stretched out before a log fire in breeches and windbreaker, scratching away on a yellow pad at his acceptance speech. He would have to be back in Topeka on July 6 for a special session of Kansas' Legislature to deal with social security but meanwhile, he declared, he was going to have a good time fishing, riding and maybe climbing a mountain...
...Subjectively he differs, too. He has a terrific energy not ordinarily coupled with the free & easy friendliness that is political good manners. His wife, who will have nothing to do with politics, is not popular with politicians and lives apart from it all in their chaste colonial house in Topeka, quietly collecting American antiques. For all his animal energy and physical charm, his nerves at times go haywire and he is not infrequently guilty of the gross political sin of tactlessness. To those who do not like him he is an egotist, unable to play second fiddle to anyone else...