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That possibility came in the form of a burning boomlet for Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Chicago's powerful Democratic Mayor Dick Daley, a longtime political pal of the Kennedy clan, has made it known that he favors Bobby. So have a clutch of Northern and Midwestern Governors and state and county party chairmen. From his sickbed in Boston, Ted Kennedy declared himself in on the boomlet. NBC Cor respondent Nan Dickerson reported that Jackie Kennedy would return from cruising Yugoslav waters to attend the convention and "help Bobby." To top it off, convention planners were scheduling a massive tribute...
...were those who thought that wily Lyndon might surprise everyone again. There is, for example, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, a Westerner (Montana) and a Catholic. There is also Iowa's Governor Harold Hughes, 42, a Methodist and an able, attractive campaigner, who is an acknowledged leader of Midwestern Democratic Governors and who, coincidentally enough, was an overnight guest in the White House last week just before all of the vice-presidential flutter started...
Actually, Dirksen was being perfectly consistent. He is a Midwestern Republican-and one not notable for his admiration of the G.O.P.'s Northeastern "kingmakers." Moreover, Ev and Barry have long been warm Senate friends. Dirksen was instrumental in 1955 in making Goldwater chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, a job that put Barry into constant contact with Republicans all over the U.S. and gave him hundreds of far-flung pulpits from which to preach his views. Finally, Dirksen had said for months that he would back whichever candidate he thought would help the most Republican Senate nominees...
...Sinister East. What was Candi date Goldwater doing while Scranton was hitting the Midwestern hustings against him? For one thing, he was still picking up delegates. Montana, last of all the states to select its delegates, picked a solid, 14-member Goldwater group. Three days earlier in Texas, Goldwater had, as expected, added all 56 of the state's delegates. At the Texas convention, Goldwater extended his past attacks on the sinister "Eastern clique" of powerful Republicans who oppose him to include certain elements of the press. Said he: "All of a sudden all the radical columnists-Childs, Lippmann...
...Jolly Boys." Just before Oregon, a Midwestern Republican summed up the G.O.P. presidential situation this way: "Everybody's waiting for California. A Goldwater loss there would have a tremendous effect. The jolly boys back East would go to work in a rush. But there's nothing they can do now except wait for a break...