Bonnet In The Ring, Sen. Smith To Run For Presidency
Bonnet In The Ring, Sen. Smith To Run For Presidency
Margaret Chase Smith, Republican Senator from Maine, announces that she will enter the New Hampshire primary and seek the nomination for the Presidency. She has run for office 48 times and has had 48 wins so far. Maine This looks like it might be a ladies luncheon. CUS - Margaret Chase Smith standing at the podium, addressing ladies at a luncheon, with some men sprinkled in the audience here and there. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, "As gratifying as are the reasons advanced urging me to run. I find the reasons advanced against my running, to be far more impelling. For I were to run it would be under serve limitations, with respect to lack of money, lack of organization and lack of time because of the requirements to be on the job in Washington, doing my elected duty, instead of abandoning those duties to campaign, plus the very heavy odds against me. So because of these very impelling reasons against my running. I have decided, that I shall."