Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five terms in the House, his name has appeared on only one major law, the embattled Landrum-Griffin Act, which sternly regulates the intra-union powers of labor leaders. That is scarcely a boost to any statewide campaigner in the labor-powerful state of Michigan. Last May, when George Romney appointed Griffin to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Democrat Pat McNamara, the Governor pointedly refrained from any enthusiastic commitment to campaign for his fellow Republican this fall...
...Uninvited. In view of Romney's past record of running as a loner, Griffin had scant hope for help. But things are different this year. Romney now has realistic hopes of winning the Republican presidential nomination. His prospects were advanced last week by a national poll that gave the Governor only 2% less support than Lyndon Johnson. In another survey, top Republican "citizens" (as opposed to party professionals) rated Romney a heavy, 40%-to-29% favorite over Richard Nixon for the 1968 G.O.P. presidential nomination. As Romney well knows, the national Republican powers would consider him a leading candidate...
Thus, for the first time in his political career, Romney, who has only nominal competition in his own re-election campaign, has laid his reputation and enormous vote-getting powers on the line for another candidate. He has made speech after speech for Griffin, filling the autumn air with praise ("He is frank; he is direct; you can trust Bob Griffin!"). Romney has set a punishing schedule (25 downstate appearances in one day last week), made countless curbstone handshaking forays, appeared on TV spots and shows for Griffin. The Governor even took the Senator in tow and crashed the Democrats...
Griffin, for his part, charges that sending Soapy to the Senate would only add another vote in favor of the "inflationary programs" advanced by the Johnson Administration. But as a member of Romney's hyperactive Action Team, the faceless favorite lets George do most of the talking...
...made it easy for them not to by being the old Soapy they remembered. Just about all the experts feel that Williams now has an excellent chance to knock off Senator Robert Griffin, the bright but diffident Republican appointed to McNamara's post by G.O.P. Governor George Romney. In labor-powerful Michigan, Griffin is marked eternally as co-author of the Landrum-Griffin Act, the 1959 legislation that imposed severe restrictions on the internal procedures of labor unions and generally curbed the powers of their leaders...