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...there were a patent on Republican professionalism, Richard Nixon and Na tional Chairman Ray Bliss would hold a joint title to it. As pragmatic veterans of many campaigns and as sometime al lies - though never personal friends -the President and the chairman seemed ideal partners to guide the G.O.P...
through next year's congressional election. Thus, when Bliss announced his resignation last week under unsubtle White House pressure, the Democrats were de lighted and many Republicans disturbed...
...Bliss has been no ordinary National Committee chief. He already had a na tional reputation for rebuilding the party in Ohio when leaders, including Nixon, called him to Washington after the 1964 Goldwater disaster. Bliss's talent for organization and avoidance of the ideo logical disputes that had fragmented the party played a large part in the Republican renaissance...
Nixon also resolved, at least for the time being, the fate of Republican National Chairman Ray Bliss. Nixon was widely reported as wanting to dump Bliss for past slights, but Bliss's organizational talents are much admired within the party, and Republican leaders around the land rallied to his support. Looking like a happy old owl, Bliss said in Manhattan that the President-elect "expressed complete satisfaction with the job being done...
...record, both domestic and foreign, is curiously unsatisfying and even misleading, despite the piles of bills and billions for good causes. Indeed, Johnson enjoyed two periods of Congressional bliss within 14 months-immediately after John Kennedy's assassination and then after L.B.J.'s 1964 victory over Barry Goldwater. In the 1960s, however, the measurement of success in box scores was not enough. If the New Politics has any validity, it is that the politician needs continuing mass support, in election year and out. Johnson had earned his reputation and learned his trade in closet politics...