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Alf Landon A Curious Figure On The 1936 Campaign
Alfred M. Landon rose swiftly from Kansas governor to national prominence as the first Kansan nominated by a major party for president. The piece chronicles his 1930s campaigns, his stance to reduce government waste, and his administration’s relief efforts, noting his later influence and his daughter Nancy becoming a U.S. Senator.
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White House
Kansan
United States
Alfred M. Landon
Kansas
Landon
London
Charles Curtis
Roosevelt
Hoover
Donald McCoy
University of Kansas
Finney
Maine
Vermont
McCoy
Nancy Landon Kassebaum
U.S. Senate
J.R. Brinkley
Milford
Smithsonian
Margaret Triman
Smithsonian National Museum of Art
Shirley MacLaine
MacLaine
Charles Ryder
Evelyn Waugh
Waugh
America
KGB
Hidden Hand
John Barron
Cheka
Andropov