Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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but they very seldom run for the office. Johnny Krebs,
the only one; belonged to the House of Delegates.
Harvey: When was he around now, do you know?
Lewis : That was around . . . I can pinpoint that , . , Johnny
was elected around '23 and he was in up until about '27 oz: '28.
He was a little little short guy.
Harvey: What was his . . . do you remember what
he ran on - what kind of issues he addressed?
Lewis: No, I couldn't . . . because I was away when he . , .
I guess generally it was 1922. But when 5 come home Johnny'
was in the House of Delegates. In those days you had
issues you got like - now. They always have some big thing
they're going to do. It's like now - they keep the country
in a turmoil - right now it's the gas thing; before that it
was the SALT agreement; before that it was the Israel thing.
And they got people so excited half a£ them don't know what
the heck's going an anyway. Let's face it - E mean this oil
situation learned men told you back in '72 that you had to
make preparations for it. And everybody sits there and lets
you go, and then all of a sudden why, he's losing his
prestige and a11 this and that now - so, what's he do . . .
Oh, the oil thing's a big crisis- I'm going to do this.
Fires half his Cabinet. Why fight the Cabinet? He's the
leader. And it's been that same way every election.
Coolidge came in under an awful mess - one of the worst
messes there was. Kept his mouth shut and straightem< the
country out. VJhen A1 Smith run against Hoover, Hoover won.
Hoover was a Independent and he was over on the other side