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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Oct 01, 2008 02:35am |
| Category | News |
| News Date | May 08, 1964 12:00am |
| Description | Before he entered Doctors Hospital in Washington two weeks ago for his second major brain operation in eight months, California's Democratic Senator Clair Engle prepared two statements for the press. The first said that he was still a candidate for renomination to the Senate in his state's June 2 primary. The second announced that he was quitting the campaign because of his health.
There was never much doubt about which statement would be released. Since August, Engle, 52, had not made a single speech in the Senate. Last month, when he rose at his desk to introduce a bill, he was able to utter only the monosyllable, "A..." before he lapsed into agonizing silence. Through it all, he clung to the hope that he could still run. But last week, after the results of his second craniotomy were in, Engle sent a telegram to his California headquarters advising, "It is with deep grief that I now ask my state campaign chairman, Tom Carrell, to release the second statement."
Slow Down. Engle's withdrawal left no fewer than eleven Democrats in the race for the Senate nomination, but only two of them matter. One is State Controller Alan Cranston, 49, a tense, balding liberal who spews out words so swiftly that his aides write marginal notes in his speeches advising him, "Take it easy. Slow it down." The other is portly Pierre Salinger, 38, who quit as White House press secretary in March and filed as a candidate just two hours before the deadline. |
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