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Name game heats up in 1968 campaign alliances
The piece catalogs how presidential hopefuls use namesake and relic endorsements to boost campaigns. It notes Humphrey courting Adlai Stevenson III and G. Mennen Williams, Kennedy attracting Laurence O'Brien and others, and Nixon tapping Emmet Hughes and 17 former ambassadors. It also highlights movie stars and entertainers backing McCarthy and Kennedy, with Reagan era figures linked to the GOP.
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Arnold B. Sawislak
Washington
UPI
A. Roosevelt
Eleanor
James
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Hubert H. Humphrey
Adlai Stevenson III
G. Mennen Williams
Fortier Rede Point
Humphrey
John Gronouski
John F. Kennedy
Harry Sruman
Truman
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
Theodore. Sorensen
Arthur. Schlesinger Jr
Kenneth O'Donnell
Lawrance O'Brien
Gronouski
Johnson
GOP
John Roosevelt
Richard
M. Nixon
Nelson
A. Rockefeller
Emmet John Hughes
Eisenhower
Nixon
U.S
Clare Boothe Luce
Eugene J. McCarthy
John
Kenneth Galbraith
India
McCarthy
John Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward
Barbara Streisand
Robert Ryan
Jill St. John
Walter Matthau
Eva Marie Saint
Robert
Elvin Hayes
Ronald Reagan
George Murphy
Shirley Temple
Jackie Robinson
Hope
Hampton
Cafe Chauveron
Maria Callas
Aristotle Onassis
Caribbean
Jackie Kennedy
Paris
Peter Falk
Anzio
Che Guevara
California
Shirley — Temple
Miami Beach
Deauville
Dorothy Lamour
Dolly
Jackson
Miss
Williams
Carol Bruce
Savarin
Julie Shepard
Columbia Pictures
Dean Martin
Matt Helm
Vince Edwards
Hammerhead
Julie Andrews