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Laudably, both Ashbrook and McCloskey are trying to raise issues that deeply concern them. That does not get them much visibility. In towns McCloskey has visited three and four times, people still ask reporters: "Who was that? McCloskey? What's he running for?" After quick introductions, one gas-station attendant asked Ashbrook: "What brings you up to this neck of the woods?" Ashbrook's purpose was explained. The stolid Yankee reply: "Oh, really...
...Representatives who differ drastically in ideology but otherwise turn out to have a good deal in common. They are California's Paul ("Pete") McCloskey, 44, a Kennedy-esque Marine Reserve colonel who wants the U.S. out of Viet Nam at once, and Ohio's John Ashbrook, 43, a deep-dyed conservative who deplores Nixon's "leftward drift" on welfare, China, Keynesian deficits and in the U.S.-Soviet armaments race. Neither, however, has made much impression on the New Hampshire granite. Nixon's edge has dropped from 79% in October to 69% today in a state public...
...Ashbrook's chief asset is the backing of William Loeb, reactionary publisher of the state's leading newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader (TIME, Jan. 31). Ashbrook has little money and few volunteers. He has no support from the paladins of political conservatism-Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, John Tower-who are sticking with the President. "Their loyalty goes to party rather than principle," Ashbrook says calmly. "Their concept is that Nixon is still better than the alternatives." He likes campaigning and manages to find some consolation in almost any adversity. One Democrat complained: "I don't know...
DRIVE DOWN ANY street in Manchester, New Hampshire, and you're likely to spot a neat and quietly handsome billboard bearing the words: "Ashbrook--Responsible Republican." To the left of this inscription is a white arrow in a blue field. The arrow is pointing to left. Across the arrow is a bright red slash. The meaning of it all? "No Left Turn...
That, of course, is what Congressman John M. Ashbrook's campaign for President is all about. The Ohio Republican, long a hero of the right wing and a maverick in his own party, believes that Richard Nixon has abandoned the goals he set for himself and the country in 1968. "Restore the '68 Nixon by voting for the '72 Ashbrook," say his supporters. Specifically, Ashbrook attacks Nixon for going to China and selling Taiwan down the river, for running three consecutive deficit budgets, for proposing a "massive" family assistance program, and for sinning against the free market by instituting wage...