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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Illinois Senator Charles Percy came out for Rockefeller, and while his state's delegation is still regarded as predominantly pro-Nixon, the Percy-Rockefeller rapprochement* had psychological repercussions. There were three gubernatorial nonendorsements. James Rhodes of Ohio, Spiro Agnew of Maryland and George Romney of Michigan hung loose. The three states have 132 votes among them with enough Nixon sentiment to settle matters. As long as they remain even nominally neutral, however, Rockefeller and Reagan operatives can keep pleading elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A NIBBLING PROCESS | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...military disengagement in Viet Nam is the most detailed put forward by any of the candidates. He is injecting excitement into the campaign and showing that a Republican presidential candidate can appeal in the ghettos. He has given his party its only viable alternative to Nixon since George Romney dropped out last February. Still, Nixon may be right when he cracks that the Governor's drive has developed "too much, too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: IN SEARCH OF POLITICAL MIRACLES | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...seven-month shutdown of its two daily newspapers had given Detroit the longest newspaper blackout of any ma jor city in U.S. history. Efforts by Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, Governor George Romney and Mediator Nathan Feinsinger to end the strike had been rebuffed; the Free Press and the News stayed shut and the situation was be coming desperate. So the News let it be known that it was thinking of publishing without the benefit of unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Sullen Settlement in Detroit | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...Republican Pro Leonard Hall, who had expected to pour $3,600,000 into George Romney's battle for the nomination, says that preconvention bills for presidential aspirants will be four times as much as in 1964, mostly because there are half a dozen hopefuls in 1968 as opposed to two in that year. Candidates traditionally inflate their foes' spending and poor-mouth their own, but their counterclaims give a good indication of the money involved. McCarthy's aides maintain that the Kennedy camp is spending $3,500,000 in California on television alone; an Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: The Checkbook Factor | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...varying degree, polls account for the biggest surprises of this surprising election year. George Romney dropped out of the presidential race because his private polls showed him losing badly to Richard Nixon. Robert Kennedy dropped in only after his polls convinced him that he could beat Lyndon Johnson in the California primary. In renouncing a second term, Johnson was influenced by a Gallup poll showing that only 26% of the people approved his handling of the Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DO POLLS HELP DEMOCRACY? | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

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