discipline. Jim Doyle Sr., tall and direct, could keep them in line with the simple arch of an eyebrow.

In 1954, it was his turn to run for office, governor. He was more comfortable with a prepared speech, always written out in longhand, than with all the hand-shaking and chitchat.

He traveled the state with Lucey, who functioned as the campaign manager, in a rambling Nash Ambassador.

"It was real hard for him to get out of the car and walk up to strangers," said Catey Doyle, the third of the four children. "They would just drive through some little towns."

She remembers one campaign trip to the State Fair, where her brother, Jim, begged to go on the roller coaster. He was a typical boy, as liable to be caught climbingthe trellis as to write the name "Hank Aaron" over and over on a blue binder.

Her father relented and got sick on the ride.

"It was a disaster," she said.

Jim Doyle Sr. lost in the Democratic primary to William Proxmire, who went on to lose to Republican Walter Kohler, a two-term incumbent. Proxmire's future would be in the U.S. Senate.

And the senior Doyle, ultimately, would find himself on the federal bench, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The nomination might have come years earlier from Kennedy, had that visit with Jimmy Doyle done the trick.

After the speech that day, people kept stopping his father on the street to ask: How 'bout that Kennedy? Is he the one?

No, he'd say. Still Stevenson.

Jim Doyle Sr. would continue the draft-Stevenson movement,