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...gets it. The important thing to him is to help the G.O.P.'s moderates and liberals hold their own for a few more years. By then, a whole crop of bright young Republicans will have matured?Oregon's Mark Hatfield, Rhode Island's John Chafee, Ohio's Robert A. Taft Jr., Washington's Daniel Evans, and Illinois' Chuck Percy, to name a few?and be ready to take over. "My political mission for the next two years is clear," he says. Win or lose, that mission is to hold in trust for tomorrow those ideals that in Jacob Javits' view...
...Goldwater in 1964? An urban apostate who out-Democrats most Democrats? ("If you get any more forward than you are," Hubert Humphrey once kidded him, "you'll be ahead of the Democratic Party.") To the brand of Republican who keeps the conservative faith between elections with readings from Robert Taft and denunciations of Lyndon Johnson, the idea is anathema...
Javits kept his constituents happy by faithfully representing their views. He voted against Taft-Hartley and the House Un-American Activities Committee, became an eloquent defender of the European Recovery Program. Though he sided with the G.O.P. about 62% of the time during his freshman term, he voted with the Democrats on most key issues. In the next Congress, his record of party regularity dipped...
Stakhanovite Squirrel. The Manhattan liberal and the Vermont Tory have almost nothing else in common. Nor is Javits exactly a spiritual heir of the late Senator whose office he now occupies. Suite 326 of the Old Senate Office Building used to be Robert A. Taft's lair, but its new appointments scarcely reflect the tastes of the man who was known as "Mr. Republican." Busts of John F. Kennedy and Albert Einstein adorn the current occupant's office. So does a Larry Rivers impressionistic landscape of Manhattan's Second Avenue, a scene so remote from the pastoral America of Taft...
...College-wide straw ballot gave Woodrow Wilson 920 votes, Theodore Roosevelt 739 and President Taft 732. On election night students gathered in which received them from a Naval Broadcasting station...