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...least three Democratic Senators -Indiana's Vance Hartke, South Dakota's George McGovern and Ohio's Stephen Young-are thinking of entering primaries as favorite sons to show displeasure with the President's policies. In Michigan, Democratic State Chairman Zolton Ferency resigned, declaring: "If the convention is going to be wired for sound and the sound is 'Happy Birthday, L.B.J.,' then count...
Romney was having other problems as well. Embarked on an eight-day tour of ten states starting in the Dakotas, he shotgunned Johnson Administration policies from the battlefields of Viet Nam to the wheat fields of the plains. The Michigander did not endear himself to Midwestern audiences by condemning collective bargaining for farmers and urging that they sell their commodities abroad "by the law of supply and demand"-which would mean at low world prices. Senator Milton Young of North Dakota, who had said earlier he would support Romney if nominated, commented: "He isn't nominated yet and judging...
...Michigan's George Romney, Maryland's Spiro Agnew, Rhode Island's John Chafee, Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, Massachusetts' John Volpe, Colorado's John Love and South Dakota's Nils...
...five Senators, who all face difficult re-election campaigns in 1968, J. W. Fulbright (D,-Ark.), Frank Church (D-Idaho), Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska), and George S. McGovern (D-S. Dakota...
Residency rules are just as stringent. Federal law allows states to require newcomers with dependent children to wait as long as one year to become eligible for U.S.-backed aid. States can also withhold the funds of their own welfare programs for as long as they choose. A South Dakota law can bar needy outsiders from ever collecting welfare; in Massachusetts they can be deported to their native states. All such requirements sit uneasily with the spirit of a 1941 Supreme Court decision voiding California's "anti-Okie" law and guaranteeing indigents free access to any state. And last...