I MARRIED THE VEEP

by Jane R. Barkley ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

In July of 1949 Jane R. Hadley was a secretary for the Wabab Railroad in St. Louis. She had been a widow for five years, had two daughters and was taking a vacation in Washington, visiting friends, when she met Alben Barkley, then the Vice-President, aboard the White House cruiser borrowed by Clark Clifford, who had been her husband's associate. Her stay in Washington was a whirlwind whipped up by the Vice-President and she left reluctantly. In October of the same year they were engaged, in November they were married. She was then 38, he was 71. She records with great non-political detail their disappointment at the 1952 Chicago convention when her husband was summarily dropped as a Presidential candidate, his subsequent illness, his T.V. stint on ""Meet the Veep"", his return to the Senate in '54 and the occasion of his death in April of 1956 when he collapsed delivering an address at Washington and Lee University. Gushing with ""femininity"", brimming over with patriotism, this is a record of dubious merit or interest.

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Publisher: Vanguard

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1958

Categories: NONFICTION