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Apart from draining the household funds, Defeated Candidate Garcia had spent his final hours in office giving spiteful "midnight appointments" to some 350 friends and followers whom he made ambassadors, administrators, judges. Most embarrassing to Garcia's successor was his appointment of Finance Minister Dominador Aytona to the governorship of the Central Bank of the Philippines. On the first day of the new administration, Macapagal's own appointee, Andres Castillo, arrived at the bank with an armored car and a force of constabulary rangers to oust Aytona. Ex-President Garcia shouted, "Police state," and his Nacionalista politicos denounced...
...contract for city transit repairs; the same contractor had sent the city treasurer a Christmas bottle of whisky, cheerily wrapped in $100 bills. Dilworth, never touched personally by the scandals, admitted that "We were lax." It seemed for a while that his hopes for the governorship had been dashed...
...figures to be the wildest battle since the Alamo. Attorney General Wilson is an announced candidate. Incumbent Governor Price Daniel is wistfully weighing his chances for an unprecedented fourth term. U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough, the leader of Texas' liberal Democratic wing, has notions about standing for the governorship. And now comes Connally-a longtime Johnson prot...
...Daily News in a copyrighted story, "probably will not be a candidate for re-election next year and may resign before completing his present term, top state Republican leaders have been advised." The News listed three reasons for "Rockefeller's virtually hardened decision to bow out of the governorship, a post long regarded as a strategic necessity to his expected try for the next Republican presidential nomination." The reasons...
...advice, I'll be glad to give it to him." But the lack of an invitation did not inhibit New York's bouncy Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who clearly has his own eye on the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. If Nixon does decide to run for the governorship, opined Rocky helpfully, "I think he'll like...