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Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton is the only Republican who has succeeded in convincing anyone that he really is a presidential noncandidate. Yet last week in Washington, he convinced a few more people that he surely should be in the running...
Earlier this year, the Club's repeated attempts to induce Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton to accept the award failed, as the governor did not even reply to the HYRC's requests. And then this spring, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) was asked to accept the award, but she answered several weeks ago that her schedule was too full to permit a trip to Harvard...
...Salzen revealed that Scranton, Sen. Thruston Morton (R-Ky.), Rep, William E. Miller (R-N.Y.), national Republican chairman, and Massachusetts Attorney General Edward W. Brooke were being considered for the award along with Lodge...
Pennsylvania's Scranton was making a series of speeches in the East and tending the shop in Harrisburg, still insisting that he will not become a presidential candidate except in answer to a sincere draft. But just in case anyone doubted that he had the stamina and agility it takes, he said he'd been taking the R.C.A.F. conditioning exercises, and demonstrated some high-level nip-ups for a photographer. At week's end he was off to New York with his family for a tour of the World's Fair...
...over the field for an able, available alternative to Goldwater. But they didn't find much, and that discouraged them. "You don't have any kingmakers," said General Lucius Clay, "unless you have someone to make a king out of." The most likely possibility seemed to be Scranton. And among those who cast hopeful glances in his direction were Leonard Hall, a former G.O.P. National Chairman and one of the party's most astute politicians; New York Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney; and Trib President Walter Thayer, a big Nixon fund raiser in 1960. But Scranton...