Epstein Secrets

r president and vice president. In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt didn't win the nomination until the fourth ballot

night session. His opponent in 1940, Wendell Willkie, winning the Republican nomination in dramatic fashion on the EFTA00667361 sixth ballot. And Adlai Stevenson in 1956 deciding to let the convention choose between two senators, John F. Kennedy and Estes Kefauver, as his vice-presidential candidate. Today, N

a sixth term — after 20 years of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Truman. Shortly before the 1952 election, St

e examples will clarify. Since 1900, the three were William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover and George H.W. Bush. Six others tried and lost: James Cox, Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Al Gore and John McCain. Interestingly, even the three successful ones had only one term as president. A caveat:

joke of the time, we knew would occur on a Jewish holiday—because whatever day he died would be a Jewish holiday! A few weeks earlier, we cried over Roosevelt’s passing, which I heard of while listening to the radio and broke the news to my grandmother Ringel, who was taking care of me. She refused to belie

eason, namely that I was an observant orthodox Jew. I was told to come and meet some of the partners when I was next in New York. I was introduced to Adlai Stevenson and several other partners and finally taken in to see the firm’s major “rammaker,” Simon Rifkin, a prominent Jew who was active in numerous Jewish o