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Both before and after his 470,000-vote win over Democrat Richardson Dilworth for Governor of Pennsylvania, Republican William Scranton denied that he had any national ambitions for '64. Yet such is the contradictory language of politics that the more one denies, the more one is thought to affirm. In that sense, Scranton last week seemed to some to be heading hell-bent...
...Looking Backward." On Meet the Press, Scranton criticized G.O.P. criticism of President Kennedy's action against Cuba: "I don't think it makes a lot of sense to be belittling the Cuban efforts of the President at this juncture because, at least so far, it has been successful." He was worried about his own national party: "We are always looking backward instead of looking forward." He said that as Governor he will not try to influence the votes of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation: "I, as a Congressman, rather resented it, frankly, when Governors and others told...
...Scranton said he would not even try to control Pennsylvania's delegation to the 1964 Republican National Convention: "I feel very strongly that one of the mistakes that we have made in the past is to try to tell everybody how they should vote at a national convention." Could any Republican beat Kennedy in 1964? "I don't know about '64. I don't think any politician does, or anybody else, but if the election were today, I would say no." As for his own presidential prospects: "I think I am a practical politician...
...prove that he has no notion of starting an organization, Scranton also repeated his campaign promise to attack the patronage system that has made national figures out of so many past Pennsylvania Governors. This came in the course of a speech to Philadelphia's Union League, in which he outlined his general philosophy of government...
Rusher wrote off Nelson Rockefeller as a Presidential possibility, citing his unexpectedly small plurality in his last gubernatorial election. He speculated that the G.O.P. might nominate Pennsylvania's Governor Scranton for vice-president, to run with Goldwater...