Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington Correspondent Neil MacNeil rode with Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton on an official visit to a mental institution, and New York Correspondent Nick Thimmesch went aboard a cancerbenefit gambling ship with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his bride. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele drove out to Gettysburg for a two-hour interview with an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. Reporter Steele found the former President profoundly committed to the proposition that another Republican should move into the White House in 1965, and equally convinced that the contest for the nomi nation should be wide open...
Bill? Another possibility-at least on paper-is Pennsylvania's Governor Willi,am Scranton, 45. Unlike Romney, Scranton has convinced his closest friends and most of his devout admirers that he really does not want his party's 1964 nomination. In fact, he would really like to quit politics at the end of his term...
Like Romney, Scranton inherited from a Democratic Governor a bundle of trouble in his state. Since he became Governor, most of his time has been taken up in dealing with unemployment and economic depression. Only last week he managed, contrary to almost all predictions, to push through his state legislature a sales-tax raise from 4% to 5%. So far, his popularity does not seem to have suffered. But raising taxes is not ordinarily considered the best way to get to the White House. Scranton is not well known outside of Pennsylvania, and even if he were to display more...
This does not mean that Ike is not interested. He is. He makes it clear that Rockefeller, Goldwater, Romney and Scranton are all acceptable to him. He asks about Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield, even the Governor of his old home state, Kansas' John Anderson Jr. His face lights up when a visitor mentions as possibilities such old friends as retired Generals Lucius Clay and Al Gruenther...
...exemplifies in his many activities the modern public-spirited man at his best, the distinguished practical man of affairs, politissimus propriis humanitatis artibus . . . WILLIAM W. SCRANTON, Governor...