Wednesday. Nov. 9, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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Kennedy to Bed Sure of Victory
By Merriman Smith UPI White House Correspondent
HYANNIS PORT. Mass. — Sen.
John F. Kennedy, confident of his
election victory, went to bed shortly
before dawn today determined
to wait as long as necessary for a
concession from Vice President
Richard M. Nixon.
In the meantime, Kennedy ordered his staff to make no victory statements.
When Nixon stopped short of admitting defeat and went to bed, himself, in Los Angeles, Kennedy decided to call it a night. It was a few minutes after 4 am. (EST) when he shucked off his sports jacket and slacks and crawled into bed, confident he had won, but still determined to "wait out" a Nixon statement acknowledging defeat.
Kennedy watched at the nearby home of his brother, Robert Kennedy, as Nixon appeared on television from his Los Angeles headquarters to say "if the present trend continues, Sen. Kennedy will be the next President of the United States."
The weary Democratic candidate told his staff he wanted to sleep until about 9:15 a.m., at which time he would re-examine the situation. If Nixon concedes by then, Kennedy then planned to speak up.
The 43-year-old Democratic standard-bearer felt the results of the election were plain enough and he was prepared to issue a statement thanking the people of the United States for selecting him as their next leader.
Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Solinger, reported somewhat wryly,
"That's when he made up his mind to go to bed."
Then, Kennedy, his family and his staff watched Henry Cabot Lodge, the GOP Vice Presidential candidate, on television.
A contingent of secret service agents was in readiness near Kennedy's home to begin protection of
In a 2 am. (CST) briefing of newsmen. Salinger was asked if such protection had yet begun. He replied, "Not that I know of." The procedure is for the agents to take over their task when the next President is definitely elected.
A more vivid description of Kennedy's reactions came earlier from his sister, Mrs. R. Sargent Shriver, who told newsmen her brother "jumped with joy" when Connecticut — first state to finish reporting — went for him.
Kennedy, wearing a sport coat and slacks, spent much of last night at Robert's home — the "command post" of their tallying operation, equipped with four wire service teletype printers and a battery of 30 telephones manned by 12 young women who received totals from "key precincts" around the nation.
the Senator, his pregnant wife Jacqueline, and their almost-three-ear-old daughter, Caroline.
Salinger was asked whether Kennedy would have made a statement if Nixon had been more "clear-cut" in what he had said.
"I think he went to bed hopeful," Salinger said.
Salinger told newsmen that Kennedy had "always been hopeful" of victory but the press aide would not go any farther in answering newsmen's questions as to whether Kennedy had been "confident."
And at another point, Mrs. Shriver reported "Jack is having a great time — he's smoking a big cigar."
Upstairs, in a bedroom, Kennedy pollster Lou Harris used a slide rule and a stack of charts to track trends as the returns flowed in throughout the night.
"I believe he would," Salinger said.
My college days were spent worrying about a job. My son is concerned about whether it will be a Pontiac or a Mercury.-A. K. Goodman.
The re-elected senator is a member of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor party. In 1942 he was director' of war production and training in Minnesota, and in 1945 and 1947 he was mayor of Minneapolis.
Sen. Humphrey was first elected to the Senate in 1948 and was an American delegate to the United Nations in 1956-57. He was elected vice president of the American Political Science Association in 1954.
MINNESOTA—Sen. Hubert Humphrey received a 2 to 1 plurality over his Republican opponent, Mayor P. K. Peterson of Minneapolis to retain his Senate seat.
HUBERT HUMPHREY
Humphrey Keeps Senate Seat
Sen. Humphrey was one of the strongest contenders for the Democratic nomination for the presidency until he was nosed out in the West Virginia and Minnesota primaries by Sen. John F. Kennedy.
- Senate Roundup -
NEW JERSEY — The heated race for the senatorial seat ended with Republican Clifford P. Case's reelection. The hopes for his opponent, Thorn Lord, pinned on a Kennedy landslide in the state which never materialized.
Senator Case first won the seat in 1954 after five terms as a congressman. His liberal record has brought the support of independent and liberal Democrats in Congress and the opposition of the conservative wing of his own party.
MAINE — Republican Margaret Chase Smith, as expected, retained her seat by defeating Democrat Mrs. Lucia M. Cormier in the first two woman Senate race in U.S. history.
Sen. Smith will return for her third term in the Senate. She formerly served nine years in the House of Representatives.
DELAWARE—Republican J. Caleb Bogg unsecured Democratic Sen.
J. Allen Frear, a 12-year veteran of the Senate. Frear conceded defeat at 1:15 a.m. today.
The former governor was given an outside chance of upsetting the incumbent and did so despite the Republican loss of the state. He had formerly served 3 terms in the House of Representatives.
RHODE ISLAND—A relatively unseasoned and inexperienced Claborne Pell uprooted the powerful Republican machinery in the Rhode Island Senate race to defeat the incumbent Raoul C. Archambault. Early returns from rural areas gave the Democrat a decisive lead which widened as the more populus metropolitan areas began reporting results.
Pell surged ahead in the campaign with a decisive victory in the primary. Sen. Archembault, however, remained aloof in his campaign tactics, echoing his personal accomplishments as well as the achievements of the Democratic controlled Congress.
Pell's victory was accompanied by a Kennedy sweep of the state's four electoral votes.
TENNESSEE — The 1953 Democratic candidate for Vice President, Sen. Estes Kefauver, won an easy victory in the Tennessee Senate race.
Kefauver, chairman of the Senate Crime Investigating committee, was returned to the Senate over Republican A. Bradley Frazier, Camden lawyer.
Kefauver was virtually assured of victory following the primary when he edged past Circuit Judge Andrew Johnson in a hard fought election.
The traditional Democratic state gave all its 11 electoral votes to Nixon.
IOWA — Republican Jack Miller defeated Democrat Herschell C. Loveless in air unexpectedly, close Senate race.
Loveless, the former two-term governor and top Kennedy aide was thought to have the advantage due to his presidential support, but lost by a narrow margin.
Crawford, the former U.S. Assistant Deputy General for U.S. attorneys, received heavy support from the strong state Republican party but was unable to cut into the conservative vote which went strongly for Sen. Kerr.
OKLAHOMA — Despite a decided state popular vote majority which gave Oklahoma's eight electoral votes to Richard Nixon, Sen. Robert S. Kerr compiled more than enough votes to retain his seat in the U.S. Senate.
Sen. Kerr's easy victory over B. Hayden Crawford sends him to the Senate for the seventh consecutive term.
Nixon Wins HST's Precinct
Crawford, and the entire state Republican party, was stunned at the swing of the heavy anti-Catholic element who swung to Sen. Keer.
(Independence, Missouri) — Former President Harry S. Truman's precinct in Independence went for Vice President Richard Nixon today. Final tabulations showed Nixon polled 131 votes in Precinct No. 7 at Independence, while Sen. John F. Kennedy got 121 votes.
Everyone is going to the
HOMECOMING DANCE
music by COUNT BASIE
Saturday $2.50 per couple
IN THE ENLARGED UNION BALLROOM