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Like John Kennedy, Nixon refuses to kiss babies or wear funny hats on the campaign circuit. In contrast to Governor Romney's hyperactive hand-pumpings at street corner and factory gate, Nixon is deliberately restricting himself to broad policy speeches, delivered with a new urbanity and self-effacing if slightly forced humor, before sizable crowds. For unlike Romney, Nixon is almost too well known. After eight years with Eisenhower, his loss to Kennedy, and his disastrous defeat by Pat Brown in California, he knows he must avoid seeming stale-and a loser-in the voters' minds...
Still, a Gallup poll last week showed Nixon the choice of 51% of G.O.P. voters, followed by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller (25%) and California's Governor Ronald Reagan (8%). Romney was in fourth place with 7%. Another Gallup rated Nixon even, 42 to 42, with President Johnson among all the nation's voters...
Global Dog. For all the confident serenity of his campaign, Nixon's aloof campaign style is a calculated gamble. Despite the odds against him in the opinion polls, Romney's aggressive courtship is obviously beginning to win some supporters. Where Nixon treats Viet Nam in gingerly generalities, Romney has lately hammered out at least a comprehensible if debatable formula calling for "neutralization" of the two Viet Nams, Laos and Cambodia. In fact, the Michigander's war views are beginning to intersect more and more with those of Democratic Peace Candidate Eugene McCarthy. "The pattern of public deception...
...losing the war," he insists, adding with a flourish of Romneyesque euphuism: "The Viet Nam tail is wagging our global dog." And, in the midst of his political rhetoric, Mormon Romney invariably ticks off a litany of the nation's six "declines": "Decline of religious conviction, moral character, the quality of family life, the principle of individual responsibility, patriotism, and respect...
...Came." Romney's chief political booster, Nelson Rockefeller, continued to disavow presidential designs of his own, but for the first time in nearly three years he began to break his silence-just a little bit-on Viet Nam. Having endured a brutal public relations defeat in the New York City garbage dispute when he refused to call out the National Guard to break the sanitation strike, Rockefeller obliquely compared that battle...