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friend’s uncle had just been elected
Griffin Dunne • The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
friend’s uncle had just been elected
Griffin Dunne • The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

The lobbyists had thought the problem would be solved by O’Daniel’s election to the Senate, which would remove him to Washington and see him replaced in the Governor’s chair by Lieutenant Governor Coke Stevenson, a lifelong Wet and an ally of Beer, Inc., and its hard-liquor partner. Now O’Daniel appeared to have lost the election, but by only about
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
In October 1955, Joe asked Tommy Corcoran, a prominent Washington “fixer” and friend of LBJ’s from the New Deal days, to carry a message to Johnson. If Lyndon would declare for the presidency and privately promise to take Jack as his running mate, Joe would arrange financing for the campaign. Because raising enough money would not be easy for any
... See moreCorcoran had come to the ranch bearing the offer of a substantial gift—from a man who had the power to make one: Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. In a meeting in New York, the Ambassador instructed Corcoran to tell Johnson that if he would publicly enter the race for the nomination, and would privately promise that if he won, he would select Jack Kennedy as
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Father grinned and winked at his visitor. Joe Kane decided that the man who confronted him was mildly insane but harmless.
Paul Negri • Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers: Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, ... more (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)
Meet the Only NYC Tailor on Wheels
open.substack.comKilday’s deputies and Dan Quill had done their job: provide enough money, Quill had promised, and the West Side could be delivered. It was—and so was the adjoining black area. Some 10,000 Johnson votes had been produced in this vast slum—and despite Stevenson’s previous popularity in San Antonio, the city’s total vote this time was: Stevenson,
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