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Four major Democratic candidates have already announced their intention to seek the office which is expected to be vacated by the incumbent, Robert H. Quinn, when he seeks the governorship...
Today Westmoreland is seeking the Republican nomination for the governorship of South Carolina and the U.S. has ended its official combat role in Southeast Asia. But despite all the shuffling of actors and the valuable lessons the United States is supposed to have learned during its 14 years of involvement in Vietnam, not much has changed. American Southeast Asia policy continues to be dictated by the same basic assumptions and anti communist fervor which have guided it from the start...
...Johnson. As majority floor leader from 1953 to 1955 and minority leader through 1958, Knowland advocated a hard line on Asian Communism and opposed the entry of Red China into the U.N. A stubborn, thunder-voiced politician, he decided to improve his presidential chances by running for the California governorship in 1958. After losing to Pat Brown, he became editor and later publisher of the conservative, family-owned Oakland Tribune...
...Clean. The plans have been painstakingly laid. The first step is to shed the burden of governorship. By last week his aides had managed to assure just about everybody that the Governor would resign before the first of the year, after 15 years in the job. The post will then be turned over to Rocky's faithful Lieutenant Governor of those 15 years, Malcolm Wilson, 59, a conservative party loyalist. Rockefeller would thus avoid having to seek a fifth term in 1974 and the prospect of facing one of two hungry, popular Democrats: Congressman Ogden Reid or Howard Samuels...
...elections were by and large a Democratic sweep, the victories were not clearly a Watergate windfall. Democrats won in a number of races because the Democratic Party was simply recovering its normal strength among the electorate after the McGovern debacle of 1972. The party picked up the governorship in New Jersey and took control of both houses of the state legislature. Democratic mayors were elected in New York, Minneapolis and Louisville, and black Democrats took over city hall in Detroit, Raleigh, N.C., and Dayton. Democrats swept municipal elections in Connecticut and Kentucky...