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When the 37-year-old Thomas E. Dewey announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination:


The wording implied that if the upcoming convention should draft him for a second term, he would run. But the convention was more interested in politics than in exegesis. Coolidge was ignored, and Herbert Hoover won the nomination.


Describing Republican Senator Robert M. La Follette, 1924 Progressive party candidate for President:


Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
  • Born: February 12, 1930
  • Died: October 14, 2012
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

Arlen Specter was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate for 30 years.