Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is irrevocable," said Pennsylvania's G.O.P. Governor William Scranton. "I am not going to run ever again for any public office under any circumstances - there are no equivocations of that statement." And so, after one term in Congress and almost four years in the Pennsylvania Statehouse, ended the political career of Bill Scranton, 48, one of the U.S.'s ablest executives and one of the Republican Party's brightest lights...
...announcement came as a shock to reporters. "Does that include being drafted?" asked a newsman. "Including being drafted," said Scranton. And to prove that he meant to be as unshakable as William Tecumseh Sherman ("If nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve"), Scranton added, "I am not going to run for Congress this year-or ever. I am not going to run for the U.S. Senate in 1968-or ever. I am not going to run for the presidency in 1968-or ever...
...Statehouses were a significant exception. The Republicans not only did not lose any; they gained one. No fewer than 17 Republican Governors are now in command, and among them are some of the party's biggest names: New York's Nelson Rockefeller, Pennsylvania's William Scranton, Michigan's George Romney, Idaho's Robert Smylie, Oregon's Mark Hatfield. Last week Washington's promising young Republican Governor Daniel J. Evans, 40, called on the G.O.P. Governor's Mansion contingent to re-assume the responsibility it abdicated during the Goldwater campaign...
...source of much of America's diversity. It is therefore possible to foresee a time when the states, through locally elected governments, will serve chiefly to give a regional accent and interpretation to programs initiated by Washington for the nation as a whole. Accordingly, Pennsylvania's Governor Scranton has urged the Republican Party to "embrace a program whereby the federal Congress outlines in broad terms a national goal in meeting a national domestic problem, appropriates the money to meet it, but gives maximum authority for implementation to strong, effective state governments...
...about as much daring as kicking a dog around, Paar showed familiar film clips of campaigners working themselves silly: Thomas E. Dewey with citizens dressed as cavemen, Indians adopting Coolidge, John F. Kennedy kissing a baby, and a wanly smiling candidate ascending in a balloon bearing the immortal legend: SCRANTON'S ON THE RISE...