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...first primary is May 7, in Indiana, a conservative state whose rural lower half is as southern as Mississippi. Roger D. Branigin, the most popular governor in the state's history, controls the amazingly powerful party organization. The leading paper in the state, the Indianapolis Star, buries news of Kennedy and McCarthy deep in stories headlining Branigin's latest support from county leaders. Branigin entered the primary as a stand-in for Johnson, and polls showed him leading Kennedy and McCarthy. After Johnson's withdrawal, he decided to stay in the contest, probably to hold his state for Humphrey...
...false names were ordered removed from the voters' lists, and officials were sternly warned to obey election laws. With rumors of violence spreading in some white neighborhoods, Gary's entire 268-man police force was put on a twelve-hour shift, and Democratic Governor Roger D. Branigin ordered 300 state troopers and 5,000 National Guardsmen to be ready to move into the city on 30 minutes' notice. As it turned out, incumbent Gary Mayor A. Martin Katz noted, "This was the most peaceful election in Gary's history...
...George Romney donned a Cossack hat, commandeered a lumbering National Guard half-track and, grandly manning the turret, cried out encouragement to the citizenry as he rode to the state capitol. In Gary, winds off Lake Michigan piled up 15-ft. snowdrifts, and Indi- ana's Governor Roger Branigin mobilized a National Guard unit to clear the roads-only to find that many of the Guardsmen were themselves snowed...
...point during a private caucus, Indiana's salty Democratic Governor, Roger Branigin, leaped up and suggested that maybe Johnson would decide not to run again. John Connally shot back: "Are you kidding?" Undaunted, Branigin barked: "Well, if I didn't have any more nuts in my basket than he's got, I don't think I'd want to walk through the woods again." And Missouri's Democratic Governor War ren Hearnes told a press conference: "If the President will not honestly re-evaluate the situation and make changes, I would be less than...
...Crime Commission, a private organization, has sporadically attempted to clean up the county, but has been hampered by a low budget and the obvious indifference of local and state officialdom. Commission Director Elmer C. Jacobsen, 49, a hard-bitten veteran of 16 years in the FBI, riled Governor Roger Branigin this month when he publicly protested the relicensing of Gary's Boulevard Tap, which he called a "notorious B-girl joint," and complained about a "wave of outlawry unmatched in the memory of living men." Though that may have been overstating the case, Jacobsen is hardly exaggerating when...