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...years Paul Laxalt has played the supporting role of best friend to Ronald Reagan's star turn as leading man. His performance has been a polished one: the crisp, affable, silver-haired Nevada Senator has headed Reagan's presidential campaigns and become an essential backstage adviser to the man he used to go camping with when both were Western Governors. But now the script has the leading man retiring. As Laxalt, 63, surveys the potential replacements, he has begun publicly pondering that most common question of both politicians and second leads...
...term Senator is still playing coy: "If it appears that we have a viable candidate who can fly the Reagan banner, I'll back him. If not, I'll look at the situation very carefully." In an interview with TIME last week, he admonished, "Now don't go making a candidate out of me." Would "passive availability" be a better way to put it? That, he chuckled, was a "very good description." He conceded that he is edging closer to a candidacy, though he will wait until after the fall elections. "Events of the last few weeks," he said, "have...
...There is extreme looseness at this point," says Republican Sage John Sears, who managed Reagan's candidacy early in the 1980 race. "It is all a function of people recognizing George Bush's weakness." A Laxalt candidacy could underline that weakness and block any chance Bush has of getting tangible support from Reagan. Moreover, the redoubtable Ed Rollins, campaign director of the Reagan-Bush organization in 1984 and one of the co-chairmen of Bush's political-action committee, would jump if Laxalt declared. "Paul Laxalt is a close friend of mine," says Rollins, "and if he chooses...
...moment, Laxalt is not exactly a high-profile contender. But what is appealing about Laxalt to the Republican faithful is his closeness to Reagan, both personally and politically. With his Western roots, his no-frills manner and his detached, easygoing style, Laxalt offers enough intimations of a Reagan Redux to give him a chance at the leading role. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington
Broyhill's opponent is Right-Winger David Funderburk, 42, a former Reagan Administration Ambassador to Rumania who resigned last year, charging that the State Department was too soft on the Communist country. Funderburk's campaign is being run by the state's National Congressional Club, which previously engineered the elections of Conservative Avatar Jesse Helms and his colleague John East, who is leaving the Senate after just one term because of a thyroid disorder. The N.C.C. has launched the same no-holds-barred polemical attack on Broyhill that it previously employed against Democrats...