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Michigan Republican George Romney returned to the capital in Lansing with an enviable first term record that includes turning the state's chronic deficit into a $57.1 million surplus. A second term promises tougher sledding for Romney, facing as he does the first Democratic Michigan legislature in 30 years. In his inaugural address, Romney moved to head off trouble with a bit of sermonizing on political togetherness. Michigan, said Romney, must have "a bipartisan consensus." If he really succeeds with the Democratic legislature, it would mean another spectacular feather in Romney's much-decorated political...
Demand for Change. But Burch's blood seemed ready for shedding. In an effort to save himself, he arranged a session with Michigan's Governor George Romney last week, pleaded for support in his cause. After the meeting, he said sadly: "I didn't get any encouragement." Later in the week, Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton declared flatly: "Whether he is a conservative or a liberal or a moderate or a right-handed fiddle player, the national chairman must step down, because that's the only way we can begin to say to Americans that we truly...
...orthodoxy inevitably glosses over the split it depicts between "moderates" and "conservatives." Their terminology is misleading. If we look at the Republican Party we find three, not two, kinds of politicians competing for leadership and control. There are the Gubernatorial Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Scranton (men like Senator Kuchel and Congressman Lindsay also belong in this group). Then there are the Congressional and legislative leaders like Everett Dirksen, Charlie Halleck, and Robert Taft Jr. and Sr. Finally there is the Goldwater group, including Barry himself, Senator Tower and a host of cold-eyed ideologues...
Even exemplars of the Gubernatorial group, like Rockefeller, Scranton, and Romney, have to count on voters who would prefer Congressional or Goldwater Republicans. And their legislative programs must to a large extent be tailored to the wishes of the rural, backward Republicans who dominate their legislatures. More significantly, Gubernatorial Republicans need the votes of Congressional and Goldwaterite delegates to win the Republican Presidential nomination...
...than exclusion." They said the party should "vigorously oppose all forms of narrow political radicalism, whether right or left." Some Governors felt this skirted the dump-Burch issue. But three of the most influential men there-Pennsylvania's Scranton, New York's Rockefeller and Michigan's Romney-insisted that the resolution was really a clear-cut demand for Dean Burch's scalp, although nothing can be done officially until the National Committee meets...