Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Midwestern Republican who "sniffed" at the idea of Jacob Javits as a 1968 presidential or vice-presidential possibility [June 24] is quite likely one who was supporting Barry Goldwater at this time four years ago. While Goldwater "went down well" with the Kansas delegates to the Republican Convention, he did not go down at all with the state's voters. How desperately the entire world needs and longs for an intelligent, articulate, honest candidate for U.S. leadership. I believe that Sen. Jacob Javits is one strong answer...
...start with," sniffed a Midwestern Republican, "he's from New York. Add to that his religion and his voting record, and it just wouldn't go down too well with a lot of people out here." Maybe Javits would offer the nation a new face for 1968, snorted arch-Conservative William F. Buckley Jr.?but "so would Mario Savio." Exclaims a Senate colleague: "Preposterous...
...evidently thinks so. As the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, with only Richard Nixon a serious rival, he has embraced Javits with a degree of ardor that some party pros consider unwise so early in the game. For, though Romney and Javits may look to many Midwestern Republicans like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Romney is well aware that he enjoys nowhere near as progressive a reputation as Javits does in the populous East. "Romney's got to get that Eastern liberal-Establishment to win," one of his aides admits candidly. "Javits is the key to that. Javits...
Viet Nam may yet emerge as a pivotal issue in November's elections-but not if most leading candidates can help it. "We're running for seats in Congress," protests a Midwestern Republican, "not for the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...history of what has been going in Romney's mind. Anyone who wants to prove that he is an unvarnished Chicago Tribune sort of Republican can go back to his AMA speeches and find the usual derisive references to Walter Reuther, creeping socialism, etc. But people's minds--even Midwestern businessmen's minds--can change. Romney apparently had an idea sometime in the late '50s that Michigan could be saved from the twin evils of big labor (the Democratic Party) and big business (the Republican Party) by a knight-on-a-white-horse-in-shining-armor figure (Big George himself...