In New York politics, Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio makes few mistakes. Perhaps that is partly because the politics of his city runs in settled patterns; everybody knows the rules. Last week De Sapio made the mistake of going on a campaigning mission to California, where nothing is settled except the weather, and where the deuces, nines and one-eyed jacks are wild.
Carmine's objective: to pick up some California support for Averell Harriman's effort to get the Democratic presidential nomination. The Tammany leader knew that the California Democrats were for Kefauver in 1952...
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