Word: romneys
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MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb. 18--In the dingy downtown hotel here, where John F. Kennedy began his drive to the White House eight years ago, George Romney's drive to the White House has been dealt another serious blow--and it might be fatal this time...
Wisconsin is shaping up as the most crucial test for both Nixon and Michigan's Governor George Romney. Nixon is favored to win handily in New Hampshire, but he must also win big in Wisconsin to inter his "loser's image" once and for all. For Romney, who last week got a backslapping, arm-squeezing show of support from New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller when he visited Albany to deliver two speeches, the confrontation with Nixon in the Wisconsin primary will be virtually the last chance to keep his candidacy alive. The early book gives Nixon...
Whose Favorite? Last week, drawing up the card for the primary, a bipartisan Wisconsin nominating committee was divided on what other candidates to place on the ballot. Nixon, Romney, California Governor Ronald Reagan and, as always, Harold Stassen, were accepted as "generally advocated or recognized" possibilities. So were Rockefeller and Illinois' Senator Charles Percy, though both immediately announced that they would seek to have their names removed...
...still rankle among party workers. Said one Midwestern G.O.P. state chairman: "If Rocky reaches for the nomination, a thousand people will try to cut off his hand." Consequently, Rockefeller's advisers and sympathizers are seriously split on whether he should take the moderates' baton from Romney soon after New Hampshire and plunge into the primaries or wait silently for the convention. If he is to travel the primary route, he must make up his mind a scant week after New Hampshire, for March 19 is the deadline for filing a disclaimer of interest in the May 28 Oregon...
...Wire. To date, Rockefeller's strategy has been to keep Romney's cause afloat at least through the first three or four state primaries. But the pressure is increasing for Rockefeller to speak up for himself and to campaign openly in Oregon, where he has strong support. "Nelson Rockefeller has been silent long enough," the New York Times editorialized last week. "If he is to serve the national interest, he has to make clear his present opinions about the war-in whichever direction they lie-and assume the burdens and risks of active party leadership...