Remember the time Nixon accepted thousands in illegal campaign donations but it was ok because something something cute puppy?
>>18257016go to bed LBJfag
>>18257016Illinois has a history of political corruption.>supporters of Abraham Lincoln such as Norman Judd and Ward Hill Lamon, printed thousands of counterfeit admission tickets to the RNC. On the third day of the convention, while William Seward was out parading with a brass band, Lincoln's supporters used these tickets to pack the galleries and take seats before Seward’s men could return.>To further marginalize the opposition, the Illinois delegation arranged the seating so that the New York delegation was placed in a corner>Journalist Charles H. Ray, editor of the Chicago Press and Tribune and a key Lincoln supporter, later claimed that Lincoln's campaign managers at the 1860 Republican National Convention promised the Indiana and Pennsylvania delegates "everything they asked" to secure their support.>Cameron was a flexible politician, moving from the Democratic Party to the Whigs, the Know-Nothings, and finally the new Republican Party>Simon Cameron (1799–1889), who served as President Lincoln’s first Secretary of War, founded and presided over the Northern Central Railway (NCR). Often nicknamed the "Cameron Road," this railway became a critical strategic asset and a source of intense political controversy during the Civil War.>During his tenure, the NCR's profits reportedly grew by 40% and he denied federal funds to rival B&O after attacks by stonewall jackson crippled their infrastructure
Reminder that Estes Kefauver was talked out of dropping his presidential bid by Truman and others because he sat on the Senate Committee on Investigating Organized Crime and could potentially expose ties between the Mafia and Democrat politicians.
