Stassen
Americannoun
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Loosely based on the life of Lakers President Jeanie Buss, this Netflix comedy is “filled with a lot of L.A. DNA,” says co-creator and showrunner David Stassen.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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
Stassen saw the handwriting on the wall: his tenure as Eisenhower’s “secretary of peace” effectively had come to an end.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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