Anyone who held that belief, as Richard Rovere was to explain in The New Yorker, "forgot the wisdom of history, which is that members of the United States Senate almost invariably come to grief when they try to win Presidential nominations for themselves or to manipulate national conventions for any purpose whatsoever. For many reasons-patronage is one, and control of delegations is another-the big men at conventions are governors and municipal leaders.
( Robert A. Caro )
[ Master of the Senate ]
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