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Goldwater's biggest headache in the Granite State is not Rockefeller, Lodge, Stassen, or writeins for Nixon and Scranton. What hurts is the seemingly frivolous candidacy of an ambitious lady senator with whom he has been playing footsie for months, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine...
...Another Stassen defeat occurred is the summer of 1956, when he said that polls showed Nixon would detract from the ticket and might cost the Republicans some Congressional seats and statehouses, if not the White House. He offered Christan Herter of Massachusetts as an alternative. Nixon and his manager, Leonard Hall, moved fast and ruthlessly to isolate Stassen. Under this shadow, Stassen in 1958 sought the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination in his adopted state of Pennsylvania, but was put down by a hostile machine. In 1959 he ran for mayor of Philadelphia, and lost to Dilworth in a definitively Democratic city...
...Stassen who in 1943 presented a proposal for a U.N., and who in 1945 was one of the three Republicans appointed by President Roosevelt to work in drafting the U.N. charter at San Francisco. In 1947, two weeks before Marshall broached his plan, Stassen presented in detail an extensive program of economic aid for Europe...
Today, as in 1948, Stassen is asking his party for the chance to run against a vice-president brought to the White House by an untimely death. Now, in the New Hampshire primary, Stassen is beginning to challenge Johnson's leadership, both in foreign policy, where the President has already shown weakness, and in economic renewal at home. Stassen asks for re-education of those now working below potential who could be trained to enter the service industries, a sector of the economy whose growth Stassen hopes to promote...
...Stassen will elaborate his proposals in a speech here Monday night, and afterward in the District of Columbia and California primaries. Meanwhile, entering the New Hampshire primary months after Rockefeller and Goldwater, Stassen is aiming for 10 per cent of the vote in a state where polls shows 70 per cent of the voters are either undecided or unenthusiastic about the big two. Whether he is heard will depend on New Hampshire's willingness to consider a man whose ideas have often gone beyond what was congenial to men in control of national power...