Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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, 41, who won an upset victory in 1964; Rhode Island's John Chafee, 44, who captured his third term last November with a 63% majority despite a 3-to-l Democratic registration edge; and Colorado's John Love, 50, now in his second term. Evans, who promoted prosperity by luring new industries and tirelessly plugging the state...
California will command 86 delegates at next summer's Republican convention and 40 electoral votes. Washington will have 24 convention delegates and nine electoral votes; Colorado 18 and six; Rhode Island 14 and four. Such a disadvantage, says Chafee, "is hard to overcome...
...vice-presidential nomination, and both Evans and Love sound as if they might be willing. By supporting Midwesterner Romney for the top spot, Chafee presumably is hoping that Michigan's Governor will have to go East for a running mate, and that his gaze perhaps will fall on Rhode Island. But even where the vice-presidency is concerned, being from a small state can hurt. The man in the second spot is supposed to strengthen the ticket by assuring victory in his state, as Texan Lyndon Johnson did in 1960, and thus the bigger the state, the more statesmanlike...
Brandt went to the national convention with the endorsement of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont for the regional vice-chairmanship. Shepherd Spunt of Brookline received the recommendation of two states recently captured by the conservative politicos--Rhode Island and Connecticut. The YRNF had appointed Spunt "regional director" for New England three years ago, but he had performed so badly that Massachusetts YR's refused to elect him a delegate to either of the last two conventions. Nevertheless, with the national chairman's backing, he won the convention over Brandt, who was tagged as an associate of the liberal Ripon...
...Rhode Island the right-wing took over the state YR organization in typical fashion. When senior State GOP chairman Howard Russell repudiated the state's YR delegation, it was not because of his anti-conservatism. He was simply fed up with the convention-oriented group which did no other work. In spite of the senior state party's repudiation, the YR convention nevertheless voted to accept the delegation...