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...draw up a list of defeated candidates and defeated contenders for nomination that may well include some better presidential material than some of the Presidents we actually got. On the Democratic side: Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson, Adlai Stevenson (still a factor in 1960). Republican: Nelson Rockefeller, William Scranton, Howard Baker, George Bush, John Connally...
Discussion turns to another advisory body, this one on ambassadorial appointments. It contains only one committeed Republican, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, and was created by Carter, not Congress. "You can tell from that list it is pure gut Democratic politics," says Bush. "Right!" says Reagan. One down...
...small-town banker, Christopher was born in Scranton, N. Dak., 55 years ago. As a teenager, he migrated with his family to California, where he earned a law degree from Stanford. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, then joined the prestigious Los Angeles law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. From the start of his legal career, Christopher was active in Democratic politics. He joined the 1958 gubernatorial campaign of Pat Brown, following Brown to Sacramento as his special counsel. He went off to Washington in 1967 as Deputy U.S. Attorney General. Assignments to help calm...
Stephen E. Bozzo Scranton...
Being in front is a happy but hazardous position in what is shaping up as the most volatile G.O.P. primary campaign since the Goldwater-Rocke-feller-Scranton battles of 1964. The race, as well as the frame of mind of the voting public, is not only volatile but deceptive. "In primaries you never know what the voters mean," said raspy-voiced, chainsmoking Gerald Carmen, Reagan's shrewd coordinator in New Hampshire. "Are they just looking, just talking, just thinking?" Reagan himself had a euphoric answer. "I don't know about the hierarchy and the upper regions; I know about...