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...Michigan's Governor George Romney. His 36th wedding anniversary fell on Sunday and his 60th birthday the following Saturday-but Romney didn't have time to make much fuss over them. Putting up in a grey-shingled cottage on the Lake Winnipesaukee estate of his friend Mormon Motel Magnate J. Willard Marriott, he spent four busy days testing the political waters in New Hampshire, well ahead of the state's primary on March 12, 1968. He found the waters at best lukewarm...
...Republican Party's glamorous Governors R-Romney, Reagan and Nelson Rockefeller-bulk big in all talk about 1968. Along with their various assets, however, each of the three has a serious handicap or two: Romney ("hasn't fire," Mormon); Reagan ("too conservative," "too inexperienced"); Rockefeller (party regulars don't like him, divorce). But what if some Republican daydreamer tried to imagine a Republican Governor without blemish: intelligent, telegenic, energetic, young but experienced, "progressive" yet not too progressive. As a matter of fact, the Republicans have three of these too. They are Washington's Daniel Evans...
...says Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. "We all suffered." Predicts perennial Watchdog John Williams of Delaware: "We'll do it before we go home." Many Senators realize that the Dodd affair and other cases have cast a moral smogbank over Capitol Hill. Utah's Wallace Bennett, an austere Mormon, received a letter from a constituent 1,800 miles away, saying: "We can smell you clear out here...
...former "Saint" from "Zion," I must enlighten you on another closely guarded secret of the Mormon Church: once a member always a member...
...quest for the presidency, Michigan's Governor George Romney-unlike any other potential candidate for 1968-has to prove that his religious beliefs will not influence his political decisions. Though Romney, a Mormon, has an admirable record as a civil rights advocate, he has yet to persuade most Negroes that he does not share his church's traditional belief that they are the sons of Cain (TIME, April...