CBS Radio News commentary about Hays' loss in the Congressional electionEric Sevareid
CBS Radio News Analysis: Monday, November 24, 1958 Betty [Handwritten annotation] Good evening... Representative Brooks Hays of Arkansas ought to be the loneliest Democratic congressman in the capital. Save for Mrs. Knutson of Minnesota, he was the only Democrat in the House to lose his seat on the fourth of November. But Mr. Hays never had so much attention in victory as he had in defeat. Losing Democrats from all over the country will salute him at a dinner in a few days; and the Republican Vice President has written him a letter of indignant regret at his defeat. Hays, as you must know, is the mild mannered gentleman who takes his religious seriously and tried to be a moderating force in the Little Rock school mess; this won him the enmity of Governor Faubus, who, by all accounts, secretly supported the write-in candidacy of the segregationist eye-doctor, Dale Alford, who edge out
