Yeah, John Jay was never a very astute businessman. I've always enjoyed him more being a gigantic pain in the ass to the political establishment here in Nashville. Of course, back in the '60s/early '70s, he was considered a major player and threat to the 2-decade long Ellington-Clement leapfroggin' administrations as an insurgent liberal. Had he won the Gubernatorial nomination in '66, we might've had a very different look to our state government today (because, IIRC, the fledgling state GOP considered Ellington "Conservative enough" to not bother with an opposing candidate - so Hooker would've become Governor unopposed - even as Howard Baker benefitted from the internecine 'Rat battle between Ross Bass and Frank Clement for the Senate seat). Only with Frank Clement's untimely death at 49 in a car accident in North Nashville in 1969 finally allowed Hooker's breakthrough (though Hooker still might've managed to defeat Clement in '70, since Clement was already considered a pre-Eisenhower anachronism, an awful thing to be at such a relatively young age). I think after his '70 loss, Hooker was never a serious candidate. Of course, when he did manage to get that nomination 28 years later, he didn't seem to act terribly interested in campaigning outside of that West Nashville restaurant where he used to "hold court."