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Henry Cabot Lodge, still busy explaining U.S. policies in Viet Nam to allies in Europe and Canada, plans to campaign for his brother John, who is trying to unseat Connecticut's Democratic Senator Tom Dodd, and for John Volpe, who is trying to win back the Massachusetts governorship he lost in 1962. But Lodge says he will not speak for Goldwater; for that matter, no one has asked...
...that this rivalry reached some of its most heated moments. There was substantial fear among the liberals that the money being raised by the chief political event on the President's schedule, a $100 a plate dinner to be held November 23rd, would be used by the conservatives to unseat Yarborough and keep liberals out of state offices. The Senator had even refused to ride in the same car with the Vice-President until Kennedy ordered him to do so in Dallas...
...declared the amendment illegal and won himself an extra term. Three years later, the anti-Jackson forces united behind the Rev. Gardner Taylor of Brooklyn, but his election to the presidency was eventually overturned by the church's board of directors after a court battle. After failing to unseat Jackson in 1961 at a meeting so quarrel-ridden that one minister died during the commotion, most of Jackson's opponents quit the church to form the Progressive National Baptist Convention, which now claims about 500,000 followers...
King will be in Boston to address the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic Convention, which is meeting tomorrow to decide whether or not to endorse the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's bid to unseat the regular Mississippi delegation...
Much of the effort of the COFO Mississippi Summer Project has been focussed in recent weeks on aiding the attempt of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to unseat the regular Democratic state delegation to the Atlantic City convention...