Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committed to any candidate this year. As chairman of the House Republican Conference, Laird said, his principal concern was which presidential nominee could help elect the most Republican Congressmen. Laird thinks Rockefeller is that man; and the latest Louis Harris poll, matching Rockefeller, Nixon, Romney and Ronald Reagan against Lyndon Johnson, supports Laird's view. The survey found Rockefeller and Johnson tied. Nixon trailed by nine points, Romney by 13 and Reagan by 14. But, warned Laird, Rockefeller cannot afford to wait until the convention, because unless he stops Nixon in the primaries, Nixon will be unstoppable in Miami...
...large as Nixon's lead seems at the moment, there remain obstacles. Romney plans 21 days of campaigning in New Hampshire beginning this week, and personal stumping is his strong suit. California's Ronald Reagan seems to be waiting on the right for Nixon to stumble, and meanwhile is making the most of his assertive noncandidacy. He will allow his name to appear on some primary ballots (though not in New Hampshire), perhaps benefit from write-ins elsewhere, and do some traveling to keep in trim. Next week he plans to speak at party fund-raising events...
...Mississippi, Gov. John Bell Williams has, with a wistful look in Ronald Reagan's direction, endorsed Wallace for President. Williams, who lost 28 years of Congressional seniority because he supported Barry Gold-water in '64, has passed along the word that he doesn't care a bit whether his Wallace endorsement means the state's delegation won't get seated in Chicago. But Senator James Eastland, who would much prefer to keep on reasonably cordial terms with his Washington colleagues, has been quietly arranging to polish the state party's image by including a handful of Negroes among the delegates...
Closer to home, Hope noted recently at retirement ceremonies for Admiral David L. McDonald that "the admiral wants to introduce a new military concept-victory." Ronald Reagan, says Bob, "has a secret plan to win the war. He will release it just as soon as John Wayne finishes his picture." And how about that White House wedding? "Lynda Bird looked just marvelous, and I'm sure she and General Robb will be happy when they come back from their honeymoon." When the young couple left the White House, "L.B.J. threw a pair of old shoes at them. Unfortunately Hubert...
...presidential aspirations, Reagan predictably disavowed any personal desire ("Anyone would have to be out of his skull to want to be President"), but refused to make a "Sherman statement" and quoted Dwight Eisenhower as saying that "it was a foolish statement, and Sherman shouldn't have made it." Reagan's reluctance to opt out was justified by a yet-to-be-released poll taken by the liberal Republican Ripon Society, which finds him, along with Richard Nixon, standing "the nearest step away from the 1968 Republican nomination," with George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller far to the rear...