The voice sounded startlingly like Franklin Roosevelt's. In the space of 16 weeks it had spoken to close to 250,000 people on some 300 California street corners. But it was only Jimmy.
Last week, Democrats had to admit that it would take more than the voice and the Roosevelt name to win the governorship in November. F.D.R.'s eldest son James emerged from California's primary as winner of the Democratic nomination all right, but even in the flush of victory he scarcely looked like a real threat to Republican Governor Earl Warren.
Smiling Earl Warren,...
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