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Nunn, who successfully managed the 1956 Kentucky campaigns for Dwight Eisenhower and Republican Senators John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, is a respected politician whose denial of this groin-type tactic seems worthy of belief. But there is no question that Nunn is using the civil rights issue for all it is worth, and that may be plenty in border state Kentucky. He was handed a readymade platform when Governor Bert Combs issued an executive order last June banning discrimination in all business establishments licensed by the state. Combs is not allowed to succeed himself, and Breathitt is his hand...
Mentioned more and more often as a compromise candidate is Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, thanks in large part to recent praise from Ike. But Morton has been doing about as much as Romney and Scranton to further his cause-which is to say, nothing...
Kentucky (9). Although a growing Negro registration helps the Democrats, right now both Goldwater and the state's own Thruston Morton have an edge over Kennedy...
President Kennedy sent a ringing message to the Senate, urging ratification (see box opposite). And the Senate, which must approve the pact by a two-thirds vote, seemed certain to say yes, sometime next month-after hearings and floor debate. Said Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton in a curious choice of words: "I think we have no choice but to vote for it. Either from a national or a worldwide standpoint, we are on a tough petard...
...favorites for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. In conversation with "political intimates," wrote Reporter Joseph H. Miller, Ike had made it clear he would happily support any one of four men - Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, Michigan's Governor George Romney, Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton or retired General Lucius Clay. What made the list notable was the conspicuous absence of the current front runners, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller...