Whereas 50 years ago there was an assumption that most people who were in business were conservative, that is not an assumption that people would make anymore. No longer will you find, for instance, a Democratic president having the problem that Kennedy had in 1960 finding a name-brand Democratic businessman for his cabinet.
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From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.
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