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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...
...Republican presidential nomination, Michigan's Governor plainly feels that the time has come to grope his way into the unfamiliar arena of foreign policy. His Cleveland speech, with its echoes of Senator William Fulbright's "arrogance of power" theme, was a curious blend of old-fashioned Midwestern isolationism and the liberal's equally irrelevant preoccupation with world opinion. Even on the specific issue of Viet Nam, Romney could only offer tired generalities...
Perched on the rugged shore of Cook Inlet, the remote Alaskan community of Tyonek might well pass for an upper-middle-class Midwestern suburb. Its 60 houses (average price: $25,000), all equipped with modern appliances and television, stand along winding, tree-lined streets. It has a glistening commu nity hall, its own airstrip and guest house. Construction is under way on a modern $737,000 schoolhouse; in the works are a power plant, fire station and store. Yet Tyonek's conspicuous prosperity is a remarkably recent phenomenon: until the last year or so, the Athabasca Indians who largely...
...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...