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Lowenstein would enthusiastically welcome a challenger to Nixon in next year's Republican primaries and disagrees with those who say that Rep. Pete McCloskey (R-Calif.) lacks the national recognition required. "McCloskey can do it. You hear of people when they take on the President. If the campaign is conducted on an intelligent level smallness will not be an issue." Lowenstein also said that Nixon cannot save himself by dumping Agnew and running with a liberal Vice-President: "It would just make it clear that he is utterly uninterested in the kind of problems that the people are interested...
...meeting voted to ask James C. Thomson Jr., assistant professor of History, to replace the late professor of Government Robert McCloskey as the group's faculty advisor...
...McCloskey stressed that he had "no aspirations" for the presidency and said "I hope a more experienced Republican than myself will come forward-like John Lindsay, Charles Percy, Mark Hatfield or John Gardner-a man of stature and experience who can properly challenge the President's policies...
Expressing his faith that the political system would "peacefully end the Indochina War," McCloskey said, "I am tempted to say that a House of Representatives that can vote down the SST can also end the war this year...
...crowd of GOP liberals-dressed in coats and ties and adorned with little red buttons which read "McCloskey for higher public office" -enthusiastically applauded the speech with another standing ovation. McCloskey left immediately afterwards...