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...series of situations in the next four years of wheeling and dealing and influence peddling which is unprecedented in the history of this country." Nixon also announced plans to expand his personal staff, taking on a press aide and possibly several other helpers. > Pennsylvania's William Scranton was not a New Hampshire entry, had no write-in campaign going for him, got only a handful of votes-yet as a result of New Hampshire may have taken the longest step forward of all the potential nominees. For with Goldwater and Rockefeller bloodied, with Lodge's victory leaving many...
...possibilities are definitely more limited. Goldwater and Rockefeller delegates meet head-on in the June 2 California primary, where write-ins are not counted. But by that time the results may be academic. Looming as more important is the May 15 Oregon primary-where Goldwater, Rockefeller, Lodge, Nixon and Scranton all will be on the ballot. From those five names will almost certainly come the Republican presidential nominee...
...America. But ironically, its final form depends largely on a heavily outnumbered Republican minority. For the bill's most zealous support and its fiercest opposition are both drawn from the Senate's huge Democratic majority, illustrating only too well what Pennsylvania's Republican Governor William Scranton meant when he spoke of the Democrats two weeks ago as "a deadlocked party...
...this situation, said Scranton, "progress today can be achieved only through the Republican Party." The "foot soldiers of the Republican Party," he cried, "are tired of losing. They are tired of being in the minority. They are tired of seeing their leaders outmaneuvered, outvoted and outpoliticked by the opposition. They are tired of being always on the defensive. They are tired of being cast in a negative role. And I don't blame them! It's time the Republican Party became once again the majority in America...
...That & the Flag. Taking what some listeners interpreted as swipes at Presidential Candidates Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater, Scranton warned that the G.O.P. must avoid both "me-tooing the Democrats" and a benighted "do-nothingism" whose credo is that "America's problems will disappear if we all merely wrap ourselves in the Stars and Stripes." Instead, he said, the party must foster change, but in its own way. "We can devise a hundred different bold new attacks on the problems of America, and we can do it without going outside the framework of the Constitution and the Federal principle...