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California Insiders Drive 1956 Campaign Machinery
In California the 1956 race centers on behind the scenes workers who run big campaigns for candidates. Key operatives include Clem Whitaker Leone Baxter and Murray Chotiner shaping Republican bids for Nixon Knight and Knowland, while Democrats rally around Stevenson Kefauver and Yorty Richards in a tense pre convention battle.
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California
Sacramento
Eisenhow
U. S. Senate
Eisenhower
Thomas H. Kuchel
Adlai Stevenson
Estes Kefauver
Tenessee
Stevenson
Kefauver
Senate
Samuel W. Yorty
Richard Richards
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Clem Whitaker
Leone Baxter
Knight
Newton A. Stearns
Whitaker & Baxter
Campaigns, Inc
Nixon
Murray Chotiner
Bernard Brennan
William F. Knowlland
William F. Reichel
Arthur Strehlow
Oakland
Outh Jong
California Republican Assembly
Thomas W. Caldecott
Berkeley
Knight Knowland
Howard Ahmanson
Los Angees
Clara Shirpser
National Committee
Culbert L. Olson
Tennessee
Tom C. Carrell
San Fernando
Kelanger
Lyle Cook
Northern California
Michael D. Fanning
Southern California
Knowland
A. Ronald Button
Hollywood
Marjorie Benedict