Word: romneys
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...Michigan's Governor George Romney returned to Salt Lake City, where he had spent part of his youth, to address 1,300 Republicans at a $50-a-plate G.O.P. fund-raising dinner. Much of his speech was devoted to championing civil rights, partly to counter the notion that the Mormon church discriminates against Negroes. At a press conference he said: "There is no concept in the church that the Negro can't attain anything that I can attain in this life or the next." Then Romney said he was not a presidential candidate...
...Barry Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney or William Scranton runs for President in November and loses, a pattern is sure to be broken. None of the four is likely to become a practicing lawyer, and it is something of a tradition for defeated G.O.P. presidential nominees to join big Wall Street law firms. After losing to F.D.R. in 1940, Wendell Willkie entered the partnership now named Willkie Farr Gallagher Walton & Fitzgibbon. In 1955 Tom Dewey joined Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, which promptly renamed itself Dewey, B., B., P. & W. Richard Nixon has joined Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd, and the firm...
...Romney's ability to win votes seems to have declined since November, 1962. The new state constitution, which was largely his work, passed a state-wide referendum by only seven thousand votes out of two million cast; the Democrats, who opposed the document, might have won the election if they had not overestimated Romney's strength and spent very little time and money...
...failure of Romney's tax program probably cost him more votes. A poll taken for ex-Governor Swainson surprisingly showed Swainson ahead of Romney, 50.1 per cent to 49.5 in the gubernatorial contest. Swainson, however, has ruled himself out of November's race for reasons of health, and the likely winner of the Democratic nomination is Neil Staebler, now Congressman-at-Large and the Democratic State Chairman who presided over Williams's victories. Staebler won his '62 race--his first--by 110,000 votes, and although he is not as well-known as Swainson, he does not have the close...
...appears that Romney should have little trouble in evading the Republican Presidential nomination; his greatest difficulty in 1964 will be getting re-elected Governor of Michigan...