MISCELLANY
A., E. & S., P.
ALL POLITICIANS these days run for office scared. It's harder and harder to get elected. But now we have the sight of a politician "running scared" for nomination to office! And three years...
...And three years to go...
...That independence for Algeria speech should help here...
...Democrat vs...
...The Irish, the Italians, the newest lot of them, the Puerto Ricans...
...Well, that is a bother...
...struggled up through illness too (war wounds, operation, spine) . A little dark...
...But wait a minute...
...French origin, a photographer...
...Politics: The Democrats...
...Our Nixon is sincere...
...John did that already...
...Sir, here's one Texan who'll be damn proud to second your nomination for President of these United States...
...Bay Area Readers, Note...
...Good education, intellectual (not too much...
...Build that western and southwestern alliance...
...Wonderful, wonderful...
...His Civil Rights vote had Lyndon Johnson whistling "Yankee Doo dle...
...What's he scared about...
...And who'd trust theirs...
...Senator John Kennedy (D., Mass...
...we're after that moderate vote...
...Campaign...
...Fine family man in every sense—from a fine family, building a fine family—fine wife, bit of the foreign exotic about her...
...Nixon...
...P. S...
...Kennedy has everything: Personality: Handsome good looks, somewhat on the lean and bony side...
...And that curling, overhanging hair...
...Let down a sick man because he can't run for president anymore...
...But, then, maybe the Southern wing will keep them out of the booths...
...And in the North...
...Nixon" vs...
...Let them pick the VicePresidency...
...Oh, but he's a Catholic...
...How do we gent back that solid FDR big city New Deal vote...
...ALL POLITICIANS these days run for office scared...
...Editors: There are from time to time meetings and discussion groups in San Francisco with the readers of DISSENT, Liberation and the Socialist Call...
...It's harder and harder to get elected...
...Shades of Jacksonian democracy...
...no egghead...
...they'll crawl to you...
...How do we reunite our party as a national party, with an appeal to the lower classes, the minority groups...
...splendid manners, charm and poise...
...The Negroes...
...Labor...
...Another AngloSaxon old stock aristocrat shaking hands every Sunday on the church steps...
...Sure there'll be knock-down, drag-out battles at both party conventions, but if the leaders would just consider the facts they'd spare the man a lot of agony...
...Africa for the Africans and down with colonialism...
...And that younger brother —driving out those vicious racketeers...
...Slow up, Senator...
...Isn't the ingrate all set to crawl out from under his own father if need be...
...Show your aristocratic side to the first John...
...But now we have the sight of a politician "running scared" for nomination to office...
...we'll smother in radical rhetoric...
...We'll back our "Nixon" in out-promising and out-maneuvering Dick...
...Prediction: 1960 will be the most demagogic campaign since the days of Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moosers...
...That Northern Liberal crowd...
...theirs smells of opportunism...
...Out of the question...
...not so slick, but Madison Avenue can't win in '60...
...hero-worships his older brother...
...E. A. Who can lose with this...
...Republican...
...That's it...
...If any one in San Francisco and the Bay area would care to be put on the mailing list, please send name to: Ernia Arnstein, 2111 Franklin St., San Francisco 9. Phone: Tuxedo 5 3232...
...A smile and a promise will be enough for the second...
...Besides, FDR's ethnic minorityindustrial voting groups won't put us across anymore...
...Bigotry and prejudice...
...they'll fawn...
...Who better than a Catholic...
...One moment, please...
...a note on the mournful...
...Our Nixon is dignified, never cried over his doggie...
...Can't lose here...
...Photogenic couple...
...Get those Southern Democrats into line...
...Don't forget father in the background, quiet, no ostentation, wealth...
...a touch of the youthful tragic...
...one book, popular) — doesn't overdo it like the last one who ran...
...shades of Al Smith...
...Can't be otherwise...
...can't miss out on the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 any more than he can fail to be elected in November of 1960...
...And the warring party factions and sections...
...you're in...
Vol. 4 • September 1957 • No. 4
