Word: republicans
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...President and McElroy will have to hustle to beat Congress. At week's end Connecticut Republican Senator Prescott Bush let it be known that he is drafting his own legislation, based upon the Rockefeller Report, calling for a chief of staff empowered, under the Secretary of Defense and the President, to define roles and missions among the three services and achieve "efficient unified commands." The President's program was essentially the one previewed by Labor Secretary Jim Mitchell before the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City last fall (TIME, Dec. 16). Its principal weapon against labor racketeering...
Because New York's aging (66) Democratic Governor Averell Harriman has turned out to be a tough politician and a successful administrator, New York's Republicans have yet to put up a candidate to run against him in the November elections. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, a politician not given to unconsidered words, came close to naming one: Millionaire-Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49. Said Nixon, speaking in Manhattan at a luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club: "I think Nelson Rockefeller would make a far better governor of New York than Averell Hardman...
Named last week to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of West Virginia's Democratic Senator Matthew M. Neely: State Republican Chairman John Dempsey Hoblitzell Jr., 45, who directed the successful 1956 campaign of Republican Governor Cecil Underwood, first Republican governor of the state since 1928. Hoblitzell's appointment scales the Democratic majority in the Senate down from...
...affairs (onetime president, state School Board Association; member, White House Conference on Education). A bundle of energy in politics, he won his biggest political fame when he helped Underwood into office, his biggest reward when he was made boss of West Virginia's thriving G.O.P. Strictly an Eisenhower Republican, he will hold his new office till November, plans to run then to fill out the remaining two years of Neely's term...
...House Speaker Sam Rayburn, long an opponent, has been won over, and will urge Virginia's Howard Smith, Rules Committee chairman, to clear the way for an Alaska statehood bill. (Southerners still suspect that any new Democratic Senators from Alaska may vote against them in civil rights.) The Republicans are for statehood, thanks partly to the popularity of Alaska's energetic young (38) Republican Governor Mike Stepovich, and the prospect that Alaskan Senators might turn out to be Republican after all. Informal polls in both House and Senate show that the Alaska statehood votes are in the majority...