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...until Patrick's great-grandson John Joyce Gilligan decided to run for Congress in 1964 that the two families' destinies converged. Jack Gilligan not only beat the Taft-ruled organization's candidate, Representative Carl Rich, but in his re-election race this fall is running against Alphonso's great-grandson, Robert Taft Jr., grandson of a U.S. President, son of Mr. Republican...
Innovations. In his battle to hold the First Congressional District-covering the eastern half of Cincinnati and Hamilton County-Gilligan bucks more than Taft tradition. He owed his election two years ago to the Goldwater debacle and is only the third Democrat to be elected from the district in this century.* The first two were retired after one term. And Bob Taft, 49, has more impressive credentials than his illustrious name. Elected four times to the Ohio house of representatives, where he served as the Republican floor leader, he won his first statewide race in 1962 to become Congressman...
...Taft does not belittle such blessings. Nor can he match Democrat Gilligan's forceful, witty platform style. So day after day for the last eight months, Taft has plodded through bowling alleys and shopping centers, meeting the voters and doggedly trying to erase the touch of aloofness in his image that he inherited from his father along with a pleasant, bespectacled phiz. "No Taft for four generations," one of his aides observed, "has campaigned like this." Oddly, there is a shortage of clearly defined issues between the adversaries. Though they have exchanged many words over Viet Nam, both support...
Ambassador to Ohio.Instead, the race has developed into a sharp personal conflict. Gilligan calls Taft a "bargain-basement New Dealer," relentlessly derides his opponent's reliance on his name, gibes at the campaign signs that "don't even carry his first name, don't carry the office he seeks, don't say vote, don't say Republican, don't say anything else. They've just got those four gorgeous letters...
...Taft charges that Gilligan reached the "height of irresponsibility" in going all the way and then some for L.B.J.'s spending programs. When Gilligan voted against a measure to bar U.S. aid to countries that allow their shipping to enter North Vietnamese ports, Taft said that the vote indicated "approval of trade with North Viet Nam, the very same nation that is daily killing American men." Gilligan called that statement "a rather indelicate way of resorting to the old tool of McCarthyism...