Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost like a game of cards in which everyone gets his chance, the national press periodically throws its deceptive spotlight on another of the so-called Republican compromise candidates for President: first, Michigan's George Romney; then reliable standby Dick Nixon; and recently Pennsylvania's Bill Scranton. The beam has now settled on Henry Cabot Lodge, ambassador to Vietnam...
...affairs. He was elected to three terms in the Senate, serving a total of 13 years. Before that he sat in the Massachusetts State Legislature for two terms. This full spectrum of experience would make him a tougher opponent for Johnson than some of the other possible nominees, like Scranton, for instance...
...Henry Cabot Lodge wants the Republican nomination, he will have to come home and get it. A Draft Lodge movement, as it now exists, just isn't enough. the party professionals aren't likely to pass over such available and willing candidates as Dick Nixon or Bill Scranton for a tight-mouthed ambassador sitting 6,000 miles away in Saigon...
...arises by 5:30 a.m., takes a sandwich at his Washington desk if he lunches at all. George Romney gets up at 5:45, jogs through his Lansing neighborhood in sweat togs before breakfast, lugs peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to the office in a brown paper bag. Bill Scranton is up at 6:30 in his Indiantown Gap executive mansion, 20 miles from Harrisburg. Mrs. Smith is awake at 6:45, keeps a blender in her office to whip up a dietary lunch of powdered milk, cereal and a caloric...
...their 3,000-acre estate in Westchester County's Pocantico Hills. If there were time they could also visit their fully staffed house on Washington's Foxhall Road, their summer home in Seal Harbor, Me., or their Venezuela ranch, where they honeymooned. Bill and Mary Scranton often drive 150 miles from the executive mansion to spend weekends at Marworth, their $350,000 longtime home at Dalton, Pa. Their furniture is still scattered among these two homes and a Georgetown residence in Washington, which was sold to the Averell Harrimans and then occupied temporarily by Jacqueline Kennedy last December...