Democratic convention fraught with last minute deals and tensions
Washingtonary report notes Lyndon Johnson snubs northern gas users, connections to Sid Richardson and John Connally raise questions of funding and influence. Delegates resent last minute Harriman backed candidacy, while Gov. Chandler and others leverage money from trucker Col John Gotlieb and Philadelphia Wideners. Franklin Roosevelt Jr and Lehman clash over seating as keynoter Clement delivers biting critique.
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Union Politics In Lively Convention Backstage Talk
The report captures backstage huddles at an election convention where Lyndon Johnson and Adlai Stevenson debated delegate switching while Stevenson demanded no deals. Johnson pressed for a unified party with a civil rights plank and a new national chairman, naming James Rowe, and proposed Symington as vice president, but Stevenson refused to pledge the presidency. Meany then asserted labor must stay nonpartisan despite pressures. Senator Morse assailed the Eisenhower era as the most reactionary in White House history.
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Slogan Smythe the GOP conventions’ lasting oddity dies
HAL BOYLE reports J Henry Smythe a famed sloganeer and longtime Republican convention character dies at Bellevue Hospital He coined 100000 slogans led campaign fields in 1936 and 1940s creating war bonds and patriotism boosts The eccentric booster who looked like Franklin and Wilson reflected a life steeped in political pageantry and public praise dying after a long illness at Bellevue Hospital.
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