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...Catholic. What I want is a man of vision and courage; a man who sees the world as it is today, not as it was 20 years ago; a man who is fired with passion, not for his party, but for humanity-a statesman, not a politician. If Sen. Jacob Javits [June 24], who happens to be a Jew, fulfills these requirements, I would be delighted to see him in the White House...
...might as well vote for Jacob; I have voted for every Tom, Dick and Barry the last 20 years...
...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, he did not go down at all with the state's voters. How desperately the entire world needs and longs for an intelligent, articulate, honest candidate for U.S. leadership. I believe that Sen. Jacob Javits is one strong answer...
...Taft Jr., Washington's Daniel Evans, and Illinois' Chuck Percy, to name a few?and be ready to take over. "My political mission for the next two years is clear," he says. Win or lose, that mission is to hold in trust for tomorrow those ideals that in Jacob Javits' view can revivify the Republican Party and return its candidate to the White House...
Well, Bobby was off solving Africa's problems. But if anyone had in fact delivered such an introduction in Washington last week, it would have applied with equal accuracy to a non-hirsute, non-Harvard winner named Jacob Koppel Javits, 62, senior Senator from New York, lifelong Republican and, like Bobby Kennedy, a loner athirst for bigger things...