Word: romneys
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...turned aside Michigan Governor George Romney's "friendly" challenge to debate because "the only winner of a debate between Republicans would be Lyndon Johnson." He expressed his "great respect" for Nelson Rockefeller, but refused to count him as a rival now because "your opponent is the man in the arena with you, not the man in the grandstand rooting for the man who's in the arena." Although the early opinion polls have made Nixon the heavy favorite over Romney in New Hampshire, he declared that defeat in the Granite State "will not be fatal to either candidate...
Both in repartee and rhetoric, Nixon's pitch to New Hampshiremen was generally more incisive than Romney's cloudy oratory, but occasionally it seemed that they had a common guru. "The real crisis of America today," Nixon declared at one point, "is a crisis of the spirit. What America needs most today is what it once had, but has lost: the lift of a driving dream." Richard Nixon's personal dream is driving him from a $200,000-a-year New York law practice into what he referred to last week as "the snows of New Hampshire...
Five weeks before the New Hampshire primary, Richard Nixon is the odds-on favorite to sink George Romney. Michigan's Governor hopes to bob up for the April 2 primary in Wisconsin, where he was stumping last week, and the May 14 Nebraska test, but Nixon is expected to submerge him in both those places as well...
...Romney's waning fortunes have locked his principal supporter, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, in a deadly dilemma. Except for Rocky, Nixon's other potential challengers are fading fast. California's Governor Ronald Reagan last week admitted for the first time that he would accept a vice presidential nomination in the interests of party unity; previously, he had abruptly rejected any such suggestion. Illinois Senator Charles Percy, another dark horse, has disappeared in a very deep shadow. Neither showed promise of emerging from the penumbra except as possibilities for the second spot...
...feel I've made some progress," said Romney at week's end. Indeed, his staffers now have hopes that the overwhelming Nixon support in New Hampshire may be as shallow as it is wide. Even Nixon's forces are skeptical of one early poll showing Romney behind 5 to 1. Nixonites feel that this is merely a ploy to make even slight gains seem a Romney triumph. They may well be, since enthusiasm for a Ronald Reagan write-in-which would siphon off Nixon strength-is evaporating. As if this were not enough woe for Romney...