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Much of his vote, it has been argued, resulted from Republicans' attempts to embarrass John Reynolds, both as governor of the state and as a favorite son candidate standing in for the Johnson Administration. There is little doubt that many Republicans did in fact cross party lines (which is easy...
A few weeks ago the name of John Byrnes, 50, highly respected ten-term Republican Congressman from Wisconsin, was associated with one of ex-Senate Democratic Secretary Bobby Baker's big-money schemes. Byrnes had helped get a favorable tax ruling for a Milwaukee insurance firm, then at Baker...
The idea, said Byrnes, was to prevent a "divisive" party battle in Wisconsin between other G.O.P. presidential hopefuls-most notably Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater. He attached a condition: that the major candidates agree to stay out of the state and leave Wisconsin's 30 delegates committed to him...
As for Goldwater, he had been trying to figure a way of staying out of Wisconsin, and now his sigh of relief could be heard across the land. Said he of Byrnes's favorite-son candidacy: "Because of the peculiar election laws, a Republican is taking his life in...
She recalled how her husband had given Baker $12,000 in February 1960 to buy 3,600 shares of stock in Milwaukee's Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp., then split a $54,000 profit with Baker 13 months later. Wisconsin's Republican Representative John W. Byrnes was another who...