Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Ike last week: "I would be delighted to see Lodge out there talking, just as I would with Jerry Ford, George Romney, Bill Scranton and all the rest. My position is just as clear as it ever was. I am hopeful that every Republican leader with any kind of audience will help discuss the basic issues, will help develop a consensus, so that the people will have a better chance in finding a voice, in picking a candidate...
...Scranton: Ready to Try? In many ways, Governor Scranton would seem a natural. He is the young (46), smart, tough chief executive of a big Northeastern industrial state-a state of the sort that Republicans presumably would have a much better chance of carrying against Johnson than against Kennedy. Scranton has had Washington experience (Congress and the State Department), and he won his present job in a rock-'em-sock-'em campaign...
While Kennedy was still President, Scranton sounded terribly convincing in his denials that he had any presidential ambition. But in the last few days he has been under increasing pressure to make a try, and some of his friends think that they can see him beginning to sway...
...Scranton's earlier reluctance kept him out of national Republican Party factions and fights. That is now to his advantage. Yet at the same time it prevented him from becoming nationally known. And that, at least in traditional political terms, would be to his disadvantage. A top Missouri Republican denies this. "Some people," he says, "think that Scranton is not well known enough. But today, with TV, newspapers and magazines, you can sell a man overnight...
Perhaps so-but perhaps not. And if Scranton is to nourish any real hope, he cannot wait for rivals to kill each other off, and must surely try his vote-getting powers in at least a few presidential primaries. For whoever wins the Republican nomination at San Francisco in July will have won some primaries...