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...over a claque of intellectuals at home in Princeton. No mere egghead, he is a shrewd politician who rebuilt the Democratic Party statewide after the collapse of Jersey City's Boss Hague, was one of the earliest advocates of all-out registration drives. After Lord masterminded Bob Meyner's rise to the governor's mansion, the awed northern Jersey bosses acknowledged his political genius...
...game to play-"Back-Jack" or "Favorite Son." After it was too late to matter, an aide reported facetiously that Pat had just conducted another of his famous sidewalk polls. "He wants to find out whether we should support Albert Schweitzer or Fidel Castro for the vice-presidency." Robert Meyner, the handsome New Jersey Governor who is barred by law from a third term, insisted on running as a favorite son against the manifold pleas and pressures of the state's pro-Kennedy Democratic bosses. He thus won a niche-or, more correctly, a wall scratch-in history...
...seeking none. (Coupled with a Washington endorsement of Negro sit-in strikes -"the American spirit is coming alive again"-this thoroughly sawed the limb off from under the few Southerners who had supported him.) In New Jersey, Kennedy again spent premium time polishing up Favorite Son Robert Meyner, who, as Governor, was already under stiff pressure by the Kennedy forces in his delegation; still, stubborn Bob Meyner refused to make any public endorsements. In California, Kennedy advance men helped fan reports that Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown was now "leaning" Kennedyward, but Brown was not yet talked...
...group of New Jersey Democratic leaders promised Kennedy that they would deliver 35 of the state's 41 votes on "request." When the New York Times leaked the story, Governor Robert Meyner denied it, but the Democratic bigwigs promptly reconfirmed...
...plan part of a "dime-store New Deal." The American Medical Association damned it from the one side as unnecessary, while the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-which has led the political crusade for the Forand bill-damned it from the other as political. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner called it "absolutely stupid," and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller said that the states would have a hard time ever making it work. Medicare neatly defused the political bomb contained in the Forand bill. But all those who had an interest in a sound program hoped that Congress would...