Word: scranton
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...after a few days the combatants will grow nervous as their interaccins squabbles are aired before millions of fascinated television viewers. Someone, perhaps General (and former President) Eisenhowever, may say "William Scranton" (say it soft and it's almost like praying). The sounds of battle will cease. Knives will be cleaned and resheathed. Men of good will, weary now, will link arms in brotherhood and the faithful will chorus "William Scranton." Then they will cry together "Mark Hatfield," and the only man ever to campaign for the vice-presidential nomination for nine years will assume second place on the ticket...
...Scranton? He served one term in the House (voting for such liberal projects as the enlargement of the Rules Committee) before winning election in 1962 as Governor of Pennsylvania. His record is Harrisburg has been at best unspectacular, although not nearly as disastrous as George Romany's in Michigan. He is a handsome man, young (46) and vigorous and perpetrator of the Republicans' greatest electoral victory in 1962. He has an Ivy League education (Hotchkies and Yale '39), a pretty wife, a prettier teen-age daughter, three young sons, and, according to the New York Times, a subscription to Foreign...
...Scranton's unrelieved blandness is precisely the point. He will be nominated by the Republicans not so much for what he has done, but for what he hasn't. He has never been divorced and remarried, although he has a whole city named for his family, not merely a Center. He has never taken as extremist position on anything, except perhaps the Harvard-Yale game, and is thus eminently acceptable to the Eastern, Internationalist, bigmoney wing of the party...
Unlike Romney, Scranton has not failed to put over a workable fiscal program in a chronically bankrupt state. Nor has he provoked the wrath of his own party, as Ronney did, after hinting he might accept a draft for the nomination...
Although Goldwater and Rockfeller are the only two announced candidates, the well-publicized objections to both, will most likely be decisive in their downfalls. At this point the two contenders with the best chance of defeating Scranton are those who can make use of the experience issue, Nixon and Lodge...