Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...February 1964, it issued a "Call to Leadership," appealing to moderates to unite against the Arizona Senator. After Goldwater won the California primary and Republican governors caucused in Cleveland, the Society made another appeal in a "confidential memorandum" sent to prominent Republicans including Governors Rockefeller, Scranton, and Romney--and leaked to the press. It predicted that "Goldwater as nominee would bring on wholesale slaughter of the Republican party," adding that a "latent anti-civil rights vote" would not materialize and that a Goldwater ticket would devastate many local organizations...
...speech by Michigan Governor George W. Romney, scheduled for 4:30 p.m. this afternoon, has been cancelled. The governor is ill and is unnable to leave Lansing...
Lyndon, meanwhile, journeyed to a Governors' reception at the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Mrs. Mark Hatfield, wife of Oregon's Republican Governor, pinned a red carnation on Johnson's lapel. Leaving the Michigan booth, Lyndon called to Republican George Romney, "Pick up the phone and call me any time!" He lingered long, speaking softly to Governor Paul Johnson at the Mississippi booth. Connecticut's John Dempsey urged Lady Bird, with a nod at the President: "Take care of him, sweet Lady...
Many leading Republicans had of course been invited, but most of them attended a sort of "uninaugural ball" at the Congressional Hotel, where the dancing was done by, among others, Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney and William Scranton, who had also gamely ridden in the parade earlier...
...fanatically loyal to Barry's right wing, purged some of the National Committee's best staff people on the ground-real or imagined-that they were not trustworthy. And on a loftier level, while the Republican Party has some outstanding and attractive potential presidential candidates among Governors (Romney, Scranton, et al.), a governorship no longer seems as strong a springboard to national office as it used to be. Increasingly, voters seem to want national experience and exposure in their national candidates...