Word: hatfields
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...presence on the ticket as a senatorial candidate should help Nixon overcome an overwhelmingly Democratic edge in voter registration. Nixon won Washington in 1960, and should do so again with help from both blue-and whitecollar areas, where concern with law and order runs deep. With Senator Mark Hatfield behind him in Oregon, Nixon is likely to pocket that state's electoral votes. With Rockefeller on the Republican ticket, a tide of pro-Wallace protest voters could give Arizona and Utah, and possibly others, to the Democrats...
...Gallup sent his hopes soaring, a notable defection from liberal Republican ranks brought them back to earth. To the astonishment of Rocky-among others-Oregon's dovish Senator Mark Hatfield announced his endorsement of Nixon, who has plainly labeled himself a hawk on Viet Nam. After a long talk with the former Vice President in Manhattan, Hatfield emerged to declare that he would "actively seek support" for Nixon as a man who could "successfully resolve the Viet Nam conflict." Rockefeller minced no words when he heard of the turnabout. "It means that Mark Hatfield has betrayed his own integrity...
Though generating a good deal of popular enthusiasm, the Governor was having less luck in getting wary politicians to line up behind him. In Chicago, he was greeted with cool detachment by Senator Charles Percy-who, like Hatfield, may see a vice-presidential nomination for himself under Nixon. In Ohio, Governor James A-Rhodes, who controls 55 of his state's 58 votes, likes Rocky's style but still awaits a more impressive showing in the polls...
British Poet Edward Young's line, written in 1742, serves perfectly to describe the endlessly astonishing politics of 1968. From the snow frolics of New Hampshire to Senator Mark Hatfield's endorsement of Richard Nixon last week, the body politic has been atwitch with major shocks and minor jolts. It is a year when absolutely anything seems possible, and a lot of people are wondering-half-humorously, half-resignedly-what else might be in store politically. For example...
Duncan, a onetime merchant seaman who narrowly lost to Republican Senator Mark Hatfield in 1966, vowed early "not to descend to personalities." As Morse gained ground, however, Duncan bitterly suggested that the Senator might be waging "the first million-dollar campaign in Oregon's history." A strong supporter of the President's war policies, Duncan was robbed of his chief issue against Morse when the Paris talks started...