Word: romneys
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...while last week it looked as if the G.O.P.'s Big Rs might all appear to gether at a conference on Medicaid in San Francisco. But the prospect was too political to please. When Nelson Rockefeller learned that George Romney had been the only other Governor to accept Ronald Reagan's invitation, he hastily canceled out. "I'm not a candidate," Rocky insisted. "I didn't want any misunderstanding." Reagan opened the conference, then flew on to other business before Romney arrived, fresh from his tour of ghettos in the Mid west. Finally, the noncandidates...
Rockefeller, the man who wasn't there, still will not go away. As Romney slipped down the polls, Rocky shinnied up. The Gallup poll indicated that the New York Governor would beat President Johnson, 48% to 46%, in an immediate election. In a Lou Harris sur vey, Rocky took over as L.B.J.'s strongest potential challenger (just trailing, 43% to 44%), while Romney fell to fourth. In a poll of California's Republican state legislators, 31% said that they personally hoped Rockefeller would get the nomination...
...Socialism." Also in California, Don Muchmore's State Poll calculated that Rocky leads L.B.J. 50% to 38%, Romney leads the President 45% to 42%, and Senator Charles Percy, now likely to be Illinois' favorite son, ties L.B.J. at 42%. However, Mervin Field's California Poll reported that the voters there preferred only one Republican to Lyndon Johnson, and that is Nelson Rockefeller. Field's figures had Rocky beating L.B.J...
While George Romney went a slumming, theWhite House turned a shrewd distaff eye upon the countryside. Accompanied by a Cabinet-rank coterie, the President's wife last week took off on a four-day, seven-state Midwest trek to broach a new Johnsonian quest: Can the U.S. slow the hegira to the cities, haul the hamlets out of hibernation, and reverse the overwhelming demographic thrust of the century...
Governor George Romney of Michigan will dine tonight with Daniel P. Moynihan and about a dozen other Harvard and M.I.T. urban specialists, on the second-to-last day of his tour of the nation's cities...