San Francisco is the place where young Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York State was wildly acclaimed as the Vice Presidential candidate just before the Democratic Party went down to ignominious defeat, in 1920. Chicago is the place on the shores of Lake Michigan that many a politico wishes he had been for Roosevelt before.
Last week the Democratic National Committee, facing a choice of San Francisco, Philadelphia, Houston or Chicago for its forthcoming National Convention, did not debate long before deciding on Chicago again. In the Willard Hotel the committee heard a great deal of Third Term talk in the lobby...
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