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Should Ford instead pursue a Northern strategy? In that case he would consider the sturdy but uncolorful Elliot Richardson, Secretary of Commerce, or Maryland Senator Mac Mathias, or Ed Brooke, black Senator from Massachusetts, or even the tireless warrior, Nelson Rockefeller, now 67.
The proposed bill, which is to be presented to Congress this week, is the result of hard bargaining between Attorney General Edward Levi and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. There were helpful contributions from Presidential Counsel Philip Buchen, Liberal Democrats Gaylord Nelson and James Abourezk, Conservative Democrat John McClellan, Moderate Republican...
No, it is not. The trouble is that presidential candidates are selected (or self-selected) from a very small pool. With rare exceptions, they are professional politicians who have served as a U.S. Senator or Governor, preferably of a large state. Since some of these are too old (65 is...
Affable, witty and widely respected in Congress, Mathias was first elected to the House in 1960. He and F. Bradford Morse, then a Massachusetts Congressman, founded the Wednesday Club - Republican moderates in the House - in 1963. A group meeting regularly to exchange ideas, the club often antagonized the party leadership...
Public Jobs. Elected to the Senate in 1968, he helped to organize a similar Wednesday Club in that chamber. As early as 1969, he sent a prophetic message on behalf of Republican moderates to President Nixon, who had been ignoring them. Mathias warned, "You don't need us now...