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Razor-cut, trim, taut, essentially modest but nonetheless more self-confident than at any point in his political career, Muskie understands quite clearly where that speech has left him. There is nothing coy about his ambition. He wants to be President, and he is working hard at it. For months he has been assembling a broad group of advisers, experts in foreign policy, economics, weapons systems, budgets, social programs. In his shadow Cabinet. Cyrus Vance serves as Secretary of State, Walter Heller as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Paul Warnke as Secretary of Defense...
Despite its drawbacks, the report is still a significant leap forward from the somewhat coy "beautification" slogan espoused by the Johnson Administration. It is not without its innovative moments. It recommends, for example, that a single river basin be set aside for study of advanced concepts in water-quality management. The report also advocates a national policy to preserve existing energy resources and develop new ones over a long-term period...
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...Michigan, Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney has been conducting a coy, behind-the-scenes campaign to win the Republican senatorial nomination for his personable, pretty wife Lenore, a onetime Hollywood starlet, who worked as Lili Damita's stand-in and had a bit part in a Greta Garbo film. His efforts proved insufficient last week to capture the necessary 75% of the delegates at a party caucus. But Mrs. Romney, 60, who had earlier insisted that she would run only if her party drafted her, declared as a candidate anyway. Though she is the kind of candidate...
Unleashing Agnew. All that activity last week underscored a basic political fact: 1970 is an election year and the stakes are high. Moving uncommonly early, candidates, self-proclaimed noncandidates and coy potential candidates are jockeying for position in the November elections that will serve as the first broad referendum on the Nixon Administration's policies. Republicans are even talking hopefully of seizing control of the Congress for the first time since 1954. But they need to gain an improbable 29 seats in the House to secure a majority; only seven in the Senate would give them...