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...Michigan last week, Governor William Milliken was suggesting a more pointed alternative to President Ford's WIN button campaign. His version: BAC, for "Buy a Car." In a juxtaposition of imperatives that verged on contradiction, some Chrysler dealers were distributing bumper stickers proclaiming: WHIP INFLATION NOW. BUY A CAR. Top auto industry executives were pitching in with efforts of their own. Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend declared "a new car is the best buy you can get in America today." Outgoing General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg, in a signed newspaper advertisement, once again made clear that what was good...
Bright Spots. For the most part, Republican bright spots were confined to wins by moderates and liberals who had not been identified with Nixon. Among the notable survivors: Governors William G. Milliken of Michigan and Robert D. Ray of Iowa; Senators Jacob K. Javits of New York, Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania and Charles Mathias Jr. of Maryland. The conservative Republican contingent in the House was devastated. Of the 162 members who ran, 36 lost; voters returned all but four of the 219 Democrats in the House who sought reelection...
...week of work by presidential advancemen in the traditionally Republican district underscored the importance Nixon placed on the political outing-for himself. The White House had talked such reluctant Republican leaders as Governor William Milliken and Senator Robert Griffin into greeting the President on his arrival at Tri-City Airport, though neither helped him do any campaigning the rest of the day. Advancemen also had laid out a 57-mile motorcade route that passed through a dozen communities but carefully avoided the main population centers of Saginaw and Bay City, both Democratic strongholds...
...help restore confidence, Michigan Governor William Milliken has exhorted state employees to take extra pains in handling the public, "to deal in human terms−not bureaucratic terms." Every Saturday, Illinois Governor Daniel Walker has made walking tours of towns in his state, shaking hands and talking with people. He explains: "People want their executives out where they can see them and talk to them." Other Governors hope that the Watergate climate will facilitate passage of reform legislation, such as a political ethics bill being pushed by Missouri Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond that would permit closer public scrutiny of lobbying...
...liberals and conservatives alike was that the President had disappointed the country by saying nothing new. Senator Edward Brooke, a moderate Republican, was one of the unimpressed: "The President did not answer these serious charges with any specifics. We wanted facts; he gave us rhetoric." Michigan Republican Governor William Milliken, similarly, said he had hoped that Nixon "might be willing, in a more tangible way, to confirm what he was saying." Republican Congressman Mark Andrews of North Dakota agrees that the public is more concerned about high food prices than about Watergate, but he also believes that the two different...