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Sir: The Midwestern Republican who "sniffed" at the idea of Jacob Javits as a 1968 presidential or vice-presidential possibility [June 24] is quite likely one who was supporting Barry Goldwater at this time four years ago. While Goldwater "went down well" with the Kansas delegates to the Republican Convention...
Javits is a compulsive leader and ini tiator. Last week, breaking a longstanding rule of neutrality in primary contests, he sent a telegram of support to moderate Republican William J. Casey in his contest for New York's Nassau County congressional nomination against Goldwaterite Steven B. Derounian. "I can't...
Red-Hot Socialist. Jack was born on May 18, 1904, as a recently installed wooden plaque on the grimy, six-story, red-brick building at 85 Stanton St. attests. (Beneath Javits' name someone has scrawled "Nigger Lover.") Until his bar mitzvah at 13, Jack slept in the same bed with...
"Those Republicans who are not willing to make a fight for the big cities," says Javits, "are in effect saying that they mean never to win a presidential election in modern times." As proof, he notes that Dwight Eisenhower carried 25 of the nation's 36 biggest cities in his...
After the ritual visit to Gettysburg, where he won Dwight Eisenhower's inimitable endorsement as "a Republican, I believe" and "a man of great integrity and common sense," Ronald Reagan last week braved Washington's skeptical scrutiny. Most of his fellow Republicans, though impressed by the actor'...