Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAMPAIGN AND THE CANDIDATES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A preview of the May 15 Oregon primary...
Here it was, just two weeks before the Oregon presidential primary, and the only Republican candidate still in there personally swinging was Nelson Rockefeller...
Rocky delivered a speech in Portland and drew an enthusiastic crowd of 2,000. When he got to Grants Pass (pop. 10,000), a bunch of characters wearing animal skins descended and made him a member of the Oregon Cavemen, a local society that quadrennially pops up to embarrass presidential candidates by making them look like idiots in photographs. In Albany (pop. 13,000), several colorfully clad "Princesses" belonging to the Timber Carnival and some red-suited gents ceremoniously made Rocky an honorary Woodpecker...
Leading Republicans can see only one way in which Lodge could be stopped in Oregon, and that is through an all-out Nixon campaign. "Dick Nixon could field an organization yet that could put on a professional-type campaign," says one G.O.P. official. "People here identify with him. He's a former neighbor. There's a certain parochial geographic factor; it's latent and it could be stimulated." Elmo Smith agrees: "If Nixon came in, he'd eat at all of them some. He would pick up quite a bit of the middle-road or slightly...
Will Nixon do it? He says no. Still, he has been in contact on and off with his former political associates in Oregon, and Wes Phillips, his executive secretary for Oregon in 1960, plans to announce soon the names of a state chairman and other officials for a late-starting Nixon campaign. If Nixon himself should then decide to jump into the presidential campaign, he might repeat Tom Dewey's victory. If he stays out, then Lodge looks like the winner...