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The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 12

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The Post-Crescenti
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Appleton, Wisconsin
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12
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Kennedy of Massachusetts, Thursday, July 14, 1960 Applet Post-Crtsctnr All couia weu 100 to jonnson tar help, because of the Texan'; State After State Swept Up by Kennedy Energy, Organization Kennedy Will be Youngest powerful position as majority leader in the Democratic-con sons in moving that this nomination be made by acclamation, I think, gives us promise of going to the people of the United States in this election as a strong and united party in all parts of the United States. "I hope that those who have, so loyally supported them will join with me. This is an important election, in many ways the most important elec I President if He Wins in Fall trolled senate. Next month the senate. I A 11 l.tr A Four Days Before Balloting Saw Bandwagon tion opened a few hours later.

Kennedy was assured the Kennedy Calls For Unify to Win Election Tells Convention It Can Guess His View on Acceptance Los Angeles UP Following where Kennedy has a back' Washington if hen. urateo. Aioen eanuey. row seat, will go back into ses- Kentucky. dential election this fall be was the oldest at 71.

sion to clean up minimum vnnn- th Move Forward With Only One Slow Down magic 761 votes he needed, 'and he got them last night. tion in the history of this coun Johnson had stayed in Wash wage, sing education est man evcr eiectei to the'day of his inaugural was Wil- try. AU of us in this room and meaicai care ana eside and second Henry Harrison, who other legislation left unfinish-1 hnM thA ai it. across the country are united together in our devotion to this country. President Eisenhower, i.

jiice. trr. yice President Richard who will be 70 next Oct. 14 During the week Kennedy roamed Los Angeles, recommending himself. He concentrated on farm and defense policies.

He said youth was no calamity, except for those who lacked it. He said he wanted to be president in order to be in the center of things, which he thought could be im The extent to which Johnson'. Nixon, 47, wins "the Re- stands to Decome me oiaesi is the text of Sn. John F. and Kennedy, the new party publican nomination as ex- i nerterf and then defeats Ken- ington most of the year, running the senate.

Sen. Stuart Symington had divided his time between seeking votes and voting new laws. Adlai Stevenson had waited for others to beat his drums. With four days to go. Kennedy claimed over 600 of the necessary 761 convention votes.

Cold figures, obtained independently, credited him with 546, Johnson with 235. Probably the youngest can- V. rfv in Knnmhtp will h'didate for president was "We wish to keep it strong, and we wish to keep it free. It requires at this critical time the best of all of us, and I can assure all of you here who have, reposed this confidence inne that I will be worthy of your trust. We will carry the fight to the people in the fall and we shall win." Frank T.

Johns of Portland, record the Democrats will car-i the third youngest president; Kennedy's remarks to delegates after being voted the Democratic presidential nomination: "Gov. Collins, Chairman ry into the November elec- io u-s- history. Ore. Johns was the candidate of the socialist labor party in tions. The youngest president ev proved.

At nieht he secluded him 1924, when he was 35. The U. er was Theodore Roosevelt. Sent Telegram Butler, Gov, Brown and my mother and my sister, under Johnson sent his younger Just 10 months past his 42nd S. constitution specifies 33 as self, on occasion for dinner uith tho Knniriv clan, on oc That was on Saturday.

casion to work from his hide On Sunday, Mayor Richard Texan Pledges the official procedures of this, convention, it is not possible for me to give you an answer to your nomination until Friday night, but I think you can rival a telegram of congratula-birthday when he succeeded, minimum as tions when the battle was to the White House on the presidency. over. Ideath of William McKinley.l "I am looking forward died after less thanj'jQcJde' yj fjf CfieS confidence to helping you in year in office. Roosevelt bad I every way to carry the vice president. 'NOf7l1QlOn Ol TV Daley of Chicago unwrapped his package for Kennedy 59J of 69 Illinois votes.

Gov. away apartment in Hollywood. And both day and night his organizers worked, in public BY WHITNEY SHOEMAKER I.os Angeles SUie by state, they were swept up by the Kennedy tide. Did they jump in? V'ere they coaxed? Tuhed- Sen. John F.

Kennedy, the Democratic nominee for president, von many over. He vas energetic. He gave the Appearance of a brave young man. willing to take on all corners in primary He j-poke readily, if not loquently, on any subject. He had looks the appeal of a handsome leading man to girls, of an engaging lad to mothers.

He had experience, six years in the house, eight in the senate. He was a war hero. He wrote books, received a Pulitzer prize. Most of all. he drew votes.

He won, even primaries. Many were cajoled by a skillfully devised and deployed organization. They had to br persuaded. Kennedy is a Roman Catholic. He, is only 43; too young, some of his detractors said.

Among their other belittlings: he hadn't entered all the primaries. He Edmund G. (Pat) Brown of 81-vote California declared for (and private. guess what the will be. "Four years ago, in another Democratic ticket to victory ine youngest presiaeni-vice from the courthouse to the president team ever to win a White House." he wired.

national election was Presi- ereat city, on the occasion of llt-A l-v Mrs. Johnson Has 'Mixed Feelings on Earlier Johnson had issued dent U. S. Grant, 46, and a statement saying he accept-Vice President Schuyler Col- Help to Jack Johnson Says, We Have a Winner, He Proved It Here' Los Angeles UP) Sen. Lyndon B.

Johnson pledged today to help in every way the man ed the decision of the conven- fax, 45 tion delegates "with all my The average age of U.S. heart" and urged the party to presidents on the day of theii Hyannis, Mass. uri Jacqueline Kennedy presumably learned her husband Sen. John F. Kennedy received the Democratic nomination early today while she watch-ed -television with her mother, Mrs.

Hugh Auchincloss. She instructed members of her summer household not to disturb her or to route telephone calls to her. Mrs. Kennedy is expecting a child in the fall. inauguration has been 56.

unite behind Kennedy. Nomination Loss i Los Angeles 41 Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson had mixed emotions Wednesday night after her husband was defeated in his bid for the Demo our ivjq Lemucrauc convention, I came to the platform and moved that the name of our vice presidential nominee, Sen. Kefauver, be made unan-i imoirs.

Therefore, I have some recognition of the feeling of my friend and colleague, Sen. Johnson, and my friend and colleague, Sen. Symington. "Their generosity and the generosity of the other favorite Kennedy. So did Govs.

Her-schel C. Loveless of Iowa and George Docking of Kansas. At nightfall: Kennedy 6201, Johnson 273. On Monday, Gov. David L.

Lawrence steered 64 (the number would increase) of Pennsylvania's 81 votes to Kennedy. New York, with 114 altogether, started adding to the 911 it brought to town for Kennedy. Sen. Hubert II. Humphrey of Minnesota turned loose his 631 votes, not to Kennedy but to a stream into hich Kennedy dipped his net.

"We have a winner he John Breckinridge, who has proved it here," Johnson, ran on the ticket with James said. Aides said he went to Buchanan, is the youngest bed immediately after watch- vice president ever elected, ing the roll call on a television He was just past his 36th set in his hotel suite. birthday when he was inaug- who crushed his hopes of capturing the Democratic presidential nomination. The winner. Sen.

John F. cratic presidential nomina this point: Kennedy 6881, shifted position over the years on major issues. He was too rich. He was the son of Joseph P. Kennedy, once stamped an isolationist and Johnson 3041.

On Tuesday, the pace slowed. Rivals said it had stopped. California delivered only tion. As she came from the convention hall to her hotel suite, she was asked by reporters how she felt. "I can't say I aw not sorry," she said.

"Lyndon would have made a noble president a tough can-do president." "But as a mother and a wife and a woman who wakes up in the morning and wants to call her day her own, I have a sizable feeling of re laven'fyou teird? lief. appeaser. Some delegates had to be shoved, by that same relentless Kennedy organization. The candidate himself could not convince them, not until pressed to stay in line or shown that the Kennedy parade was passing them by. Jack Kennedy arrived in Los Angeles last Saturday the obvious front-runner.

He had campaigned. Sen. Lyndon B.i 30 to Kennedy (311 to Steven-ison). Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota and New Jersey, among 'others, didn't come across as expected. Still the total rose: Kennedy 743, Johnson 335.

On Wednesday morning, had slipped to 741 because a few minds changed in Nebraska's delegation. Humphrey declared for Stevenson. I But by the time the conven "I have the strongest feeling of all for those gallant friends who did so much for us, and somewhere down the road I am going to see them again." 4 2 is opening another Rougeau's "With Your Comfort and Convenience In Mind" Coin-operated, Unattended Guaranteed Not to Shrink 51b. lots I In 1 No Sag Added 1326 N. Meade Street 100 Pure Ground Beef JaT Free Refreshments and Free Washing during FREE and EASY PARKING Park Sundial 1326 A Market Parking 27 1 -sr I Rougeau's Homemade r45c hS ausage N.

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