For a fortnight, the husky, serious, silo-tall young man who was Minnesota's Governor had been working 15 hours a day to clean off his desk. In & out of Harold Stassen's deep-carpeted office in the State Capitol went men on last-minute business: legislators, businessmen, labor leaders, Republican bigwigs. Harold Stassen listened to all of them, between interruptions plugged away at humdrum details. On the floor above the Legislature dragged to a close.
As soon as the Legislature adjourned, Harold Stassen would be free to keep a promise made more than a year...
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