Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...note the unwillingness of Las Vegas bookmakers to offer any odds on the 1968 presidential election. An advertisement in the Irish Independent of April 22 reveals that Dublin Bookmaker Terry Rogers offers 5 to 4 against Lyndon Johnson, 5 to 2 Romney, 6 to 1 Nixon, 16 to 1 each Rockefeller, Reagan and Percy, 25 to 1 Humphrey and Robert Kennedy...
...Ever since Romney visited our area, I've been wondering who he reminded me of. Thanks to Mr. Conrad, I have it: Fearless Fosdick...
...Romney has been successful in his home state, where Negro support at the polls has risen from below 6% in his first campaign in 1962 to 33% in 1966. Last week, addressing the American Jewish Committee in New York, he defined his views on civil rights before a national audience. Charging that federal civil rights programs have been "shallow," Romney declared that the battle for equality "can only be won in heart-to-heart combat...
...Romney obliquely chided Lyndon Johnson's Administration-which he dubs "the Great Facade"-for falsely raising hopes among Negroes of the social and economic gains to be achieved by federal programs. In a prepared text that he did not have time to read in full, Romney also admonished the nation itself for having become "cynical, apathetic and overbearing" toward the rest of the world, and particularly the nonwhite world...
...said, "too often give the lie to our sincerity. It is vital that we make our practices match our principles." Otherwise, he warned, the U.S. faces not only a "succession" of long, hot summers at home but the "equally forbidding prospect of a long, hot century" throughout the world. Romney clearly would like to be the man to bring principles and practices together, and recognizing that his major deficiency is in his unfamiliarity with foreign affairs, is now planning a 19-day look-and-learn trip through South America later this spring, followed by a trip to Asia-including Viet...