Stassen
Americannoun
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“We had a lot of concession vendors walking back and forth,” Stassen remembers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
Back home, he met many of the ambitious young men who were turning Minnesota into a political powerhouse, including Humphrey, Gov. Harold Stassen, future Gov. Orville Freeman and future Vice President Walter Mondale.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
The first primary debate, in 1948, featured New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and former Minnesota Gov. Harold Stassen, who were competing for the Republican nomination.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2019
In 1948, Thomas Dewey and Harold Stassen, competing for the Republican nomination, debated a single policy question on national radio: “Shall the Communist Party in the United States be outlawed?”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2016
The last hurrah for the two aging warriors was sounded during a marathon session of the National Security Council on January 6, 1958, when Stassen proposed a new framework for talks with the Soviet Union.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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