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Coming up fast on the outside was Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton. In the next two months, Scranton, who rarely has appeared outside his own state, has political speeches scheduled in New York, Detroit, Kansas City, Indianapolis and New Haven. Already, Scranton had become the pundits' and editorialists' winter-book favorite (see THE PRESS). The New York Herald Tribune, owned by Millionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, all but endorsed Scranton last week in a 1,000-word editorial that said: "Neither the most liberal nor the most conservative of Republicans, he appears to be a common-sense...
Eisenhower's name was being used-possibly in vain-by contenders other than Scranton. Harold Stassen, now a Philadelphia lawyer with a record of elective losses in Pennsylvania elections, announced that he would definitely try to be nominated. He had, said Stassen, visited Ike at Gettysburg several times and was encouraged to run after he got a letter from Eisenhower last month saying "you may be sure that there will be no lack of effort on my part to elect the ticket you should be heading"-if by some quirk Stassen should wind up heading a ticket somewhere...
...Ambassador to South Viet Nam, wrote Drummond, "is not whether Mr. Lodge is going to resign his ambassadorship and become an open, active and campaigning candidate for the nomination-but when." In some quarters, added Drummond hopefully, Lodge was considered "a more formidable contender" than Nixon, Goldwater or Scranton...
...other hand, Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, heretofore a reluctant possibility, now seemed to some editorial analysts to have moved a lot nearer the money. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "He appears to have just the combination of qualities, both personal and political, that the Republican Party needs to oppose Lyndon Johnson...
...Governor said that he told Ike he was "flattered that he asked" but that he did not want to run. Yet when a reporter asked Scranton if he was qualified to be President, he seemed angry. "That's a very dirty question," he snapped. "Is anybody fully qualified to do every phase of the job? I don't suppose so." Then, more mildly, he said: "It's extremely variegated, heavily burdensome, but it's the most important job in the world. Do I think that I could...