Word: laird
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Winning Direction. Despite his 1964 apostasy-which still irks many Republicans-and regardless of lingering Alibis about his intellectual depth, most party leaders nonetheless concede Romney a substantial edge for 1968. "He is indisputably the leading candidate now," said Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference and a longtime skeptic about Romney's presidential qualifications...
...Democrats' "destructive centralism," urges Republicans to begin "revitalizing state and local governments," but so far has had little to say on most national and international issues. Though he was expected to win a third term, few experts anticipated the extent of his victory. Before the election, Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference, observed cagily that to become a serious presidential contender, Romney would not only have to win reelection by a heavy margin but would also have to carry G.O.P. Senator Robert Griffin and a couple of doubtful Congressmen in with...
With some justification, the report-presented at a press conference by G.O.P. House Leaders Gerald Ford, Melvin Laird, Les Arends, John Rhodes and Charles Goodell-also charges that the ever-deepening U.S. involvement has been accompanied by obfuscation, miscalculation, even "studied deception." However, the Republican dawks could not convincingly square their criticism of U.S. war policy with their insistence that they still support the war. Moreover, in blaming Johnson for U.S. involvement, they glossed over commitments made by his predecessors, including President Eisenhower, and pointedly neglected to mention Congress' 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, in which Republicans and Democrats...
...letters, notes for the Life and drafts of it in his own hand, above all the manuscript of his masterpiece-the voluminous journal he kept for 35 years. Published in seven installments between 1950 and 1963, the Journal (which sold 2,500,000 copies) dramatically transformed the lusty laird of Auchinleck from a minor to a major figure in 18th century letters and at the same time multiplied a thousandfold the known facts of his life...
...another personal victory will not satisfy Mel Laird and the other ex-Goldwaterites who are watching Romney. They want a nominee with coattails, and to date Romney has not led a single Republican running mate to victory in a state-wide election. Nor are the Republicans likely to recapture the reapportioned State House or Senate this year. Republicans will probably win back one to three of the four Congressional seats they lost in 1964, but that may not be enough to convince hard-boiled national convention delegates to abandon the more congenial Richard Nixon...