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...keep on top of the important things in foreign policy." Richard Nixon said in Cincinnati that he found it hard "to name any place in the world where the U.S. is not being blackmailed, threatened, insulted or knocked around by some pip-squeak dictator." Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton said foreign policy was becoming the No. 1 campaign issue in 1964, urged the G.O.P. to "take advantage of this...
...sounds more like a non-candidate than the noncandidates themselves, admitted to Harvard's Young Republicans that he was "at the bottom of the totem pole" in New Hampshire. Even that was an understatement. And in Detroit, Michigan's Governor George Romney breakfasted with Pennsylvania's Scranton in the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, and each tried to persuade the other to jump into the race. Scranton said he would be simply "delighted" if Romney would run. Romney said, "I would be delighted if Governor Scranton would." All in all, said Scranton afterward, "it was sort of an Alphonse...
...Scranton proved himself a notable exception to that rule...
...speech to the state legislature, Scranton blasted Pennsylvania labor officials as "demagogues" whose actions are "blatantly political and frankly hypocritical," whose weapons have been "distortion, half-truth, and a complete disregard for the future of Pennsylvania and its people." Indeed, said Scranton, these labor leaders "crucify both the unemployed and the working men and women of Pennsylvania on a cross of falsehoods...
...time, Scranton was arguing on behalf of a bill that he proposed to reform the state's unemployment compensation laws. Unemployment among Pennsylvania's 4,584,000 work force stands at 8.2%, well above the national average, and the state compensation fund seems headed toward bankruptcy. Scranton would close loopholes in the laws, require large firms to contribute an extra $138 million to the fund over five years. Some 30,000 small businesses, with little labor turnover, would pay less than they do now. Maximum benefits would be increased from $40 to $45 weekly, but fewer people would...