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RECRUITING CONSPIRATORS

He was college president until 1973; he ran for the Senate in 1976, aged seventy, becoming a Republican for the first time.

History had taught republicans to distrust luminaries.

His seat in Congress was already gone: Homer Thornberry, having won the Democratic primary in the Tenth District, was assured of election in November. And he was in imminent danger of having his reputation tarnished so badly that even if he were to desire another political post—appointive or elective—he might not be able to get it. He was in danger

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Princeton political scientist Fred I. Greenstein has written at length about Eisenhower’s indirect but carefully calculated style of political leadership.e His use of Clay in his 1951–52 quest for the Republican presidential nomination is an early manifestation of that style.

Brownell flew to California and met clandestinely with Warren at McClellan Air Force Base, ten miles from Sacramento, on Sunday morning, September 27.

When liberals later criticized him for having had “no program,” Stevenson would reply, “Well, that’s not exactly right. I had a program. It was economy.” Within that definition, he was very successful. The $34,000,000 state deficit he inherited at his inauguration had become a surplus of $35,000,000 by the time he left office.