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...replied Governor George Romney to the inevitable question at the Washington dinner he was addressing. Romney may have been half-joking, but only half: his Presidential stock has gone down considerably in the past year. Only last spring his name was invariably mentioned after Rockefeller and Goldwater and before Scranton; now he has difficulty making the Top Five...
...Romney has impaired his re-election chances in Michigan. He has brought dismay to a state party just organizing in his image after 14 years of defeat." Romney replied that his remarks were no more than "the normal reaction of any red-blooded American." > Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton was having trouble fighting off his followers. He told a Harrisburg news conference: "I've been doing a great deal to discourage them. I've discovered that some of them have done things without my knowledge, and they've heard about it. I think the discouragement...
...Scranton has never lost a Presidential election, nor has he run for Governor of California and been defeated by Pat Brown. And he has never been tasteless enough to vent in public whatever paranoic feelings he might harbor about the press...
...read "I got my job through the New York Times." Lodge thus far has been adamant in his resistance, and his presence in Saigon, so far from the battle, will not help his backers build an organization. Although he is well-known he has a good measure of Scranton-like purity. If foreign affairs appear extremely important in July, Lodge could win the nomination because of his experience, if not his overwhelming success in that realm...
...Scranton however, has never been deposed from a Senate seat by a brash young Congressman named Kennedy, nor has he run for vice-President and lost. His greatest asset is that he has not done very much of anything, and rival partisans, therefore, have precious little to hold against...