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Some time last year George Romney convinced himself that he should run for President. He was saved from making the race in 1964 by a series of political setbacks in Michigan the preceding year: his state constitution was almost defeated, his tax program killed by a Republican legislature, and he...
Johnson and Humphrey belittled the threat of mid-term congressional losses, which the party in power traditionally suffers. "Our men don't know where some get this information that there is going to be any great difficulty this year," the President told reporters. "I guess it must be the...
Noting that the Goldwater platform had caused a "precipitate decline in Negro support," the liberals' report termed the 1964 election a "historic reversal rarely matched in politics," adding: "The party which had suffered the stigma in the South of being the 'black' Republican Party while most Negroes...
Bet on Tomorrow. Republican organizations in some states, notably Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, have been moderate on the racial issue and receptive to Negro membership. Elsewhere in the South, said the report, the Republican Party in 1964 "appeared to be pandering to those elements intent on turning back...
>In Mexico City, vacationing Barry Goldwater reiterated that he "will not be a candidate for the presidency" in 1968 but announced plans to run in that year for the Senate seat held by Democrat Carl Hayden, 88.