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...Kansas City, were here to build a 'New Majority' on the structure of the American Independent Party. For a week they had been on the phone to Reaganites but, as a prominent conservative told me, not one Republican office-holder defected. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson, Illinois Congressman Phillip Crane--none set foot in the Hilton. 'National Review' editor William Rusher and direct-mail wizard Richard Viguerie, leaders of the coalition movement, groped around and finally found a candidate in Robert Morris, a McCarthy era witch hunter who heads a nearly defunct Texas college...
Balloting begins without Alabama--no one from that state has shown up. "Madame Secretary, Nebraska...which commends New Hampshire and its governor Meldrim...
Reagan any more. New Hampshire's ultra-conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. insisted that "this type of deal exemplifies why politics and politicians are held in such low esteem by all Americans. I will not assist in selling this opportunistic team to the Republicans." Then he cashed in his ticket for Kansas City...
...global view" in U.S. policy, citing American diplomacy in Cyprus, Lebanon and Angola as confused and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as unrealistic in expecting Congress to approve aid to Angola when the Administration had failed to explain why this was vital to U.S. national security. When Republican Governor Meldrim Thomson predicted last week that Reagan, whom he backs, would win more than 50% of the vote, other Reagan strategists insisted on lower estimates; part of the game, of course, is to underestimate the candidate's strength so anything better will look like a "victory...
...terms of the support his candidates for public office receive. Certainly there is a hard core Loeb constituency in New Hampshire. Indeed an actual Loeb party, a Republican faction, has played a key role in state politics for a long time. But the political success of reactionaries like Meldrim Thomson and Wesley Powell is only one standard with which to measure the Loeb influence. The Union Leader informs the political dynamic of New Hampshire on a more subtle, day-to-day basis. Public discussion of the need for a sales tax has become a practical impossibility; increased aid to education...