Setting The Record Straight About Estes Kefauver
August 25, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Extreme Mortman senior historian Richard Andrews brings us up-to-date about David Broder and 1956:
In the one of his videos on Washingtonpost.com/postpoliticstv (partly transcribed on p.A27 of today’s Post), Broder says LBJ helped make Estes Kefauver the VP nominee in ‘56. WRONG! LBJ supported JFK to the bitter end; one of LBJ’s best known pre-Presidential utterances was his casting Texas’ votes for “the fighting sailor who wears the scars of battle”. I have this here in Caro’s “Master of the Senate” book, and there are online references, too.
D’oh!
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