Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic primary when he was already campaigning intensively, but it was a smaller percentage of the vote than Kennedy's was. Pennsylvania Republicans are obviously pleased with the Governor's performance during his first year and a half in office, and the growing size of the "Scranton-for-President Clubs" is indicative of their enthusiasm for offering his name as a nominee...
...clubs" are ready to begin an all-out campaign, but the question remains whether or not Scranton is in fact interested in the Presidential nomination. At a recent news conference in Harrisburg he revealed that a vacation in Florida had convinced him to do absolutely nothing; only an "honest and sincere draft" could interest him in the nomination. The new solution to the flood of requests for interviews has been to refuse them, and on the surface Scranton seems to be discouraging publicity...
...sharp contrast to Michigan's George Romney. Scranton has had remarkable success with his program as governor, with only his bid for a convention to revise the state constitution failing narrowly. Though he had militant opposition from organized labor, he managed to pass substantial revisions of the state's unemployment compensation laws in a special session of the General Assembly...
...Scranton showed he is able to act quickly in a crisis in recent weeks, as he moved to settle the Chester, Pennsylvania, school segregation dispute. If the state Human Rclations Commission fails to come up with a satisfactory solution, Scranton will have an opportunity to put into practical acts his earlier pronouncements on American racial problems...
With each public denial and private step forward, people will continue to watch Scranton closely. Those sixty-three first-ballot convention votes may be extremely important, as a rallying point for a Scranton drive before or during the convention, a decisive bloc that could go any way in the case of a deadlocked convention, or the core for a vice-Presidential attempt. At any rate, Scranton will probably be without a job in 1966, since he cannot succeed himself as governor and no Senate seat will be available. Certainly he would want to be on good terms with any Republican...