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Since Keating entered the Cuba controversy, his mail has reached mountainous proportions. An indication of Keating's new status occurred recently at a Republican dinner on Long Island. Keating was not there, but Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton was. "Morton was trying to warm up the audience," says a man who attended the dinner. "He tried to get a cheer out of them by praising Governor Rockefeller. They were dead. He tried again with Javits. Again they were dead. Then he started building up Keating, and the 1,000 people in that crowd just about brought the roof...
...Mills strongly disagrees. He feels that without the appeal of tax cuts to carry it, reform would not get very far along its rocky road. Mills therefore insists on tying tax cuts and reform together. On that point he has some sturdy backing in Congress. Says Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton, former Republican National Chairman: "I will oppose any across-the-board tax cut without tax reform. If we cut taxes with out making reforms, we lose much of our trading position...
Similar sentiments issued from several of Byrd's fellow Senators-Kentucky Republican Thruston B. Morton, Kansas Republican Frank Carlson, and even Tennessee's liberal Democrat Albert Gore, who pronounced himself in favor of tax cuts only "if we could reduce Government spending and pay something on the national debt...
...Oklahoma, Republican Henry Bellmon captured the governorship by a hefty margin, becoming the first G.O.P. Governor in the state's history. In Kentucky, Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton decisively defeated Democrat Wilson W. Wyatt in one of 1962's most meaningful political battles. It was an uncompromising clash, without any me-too touches to blur the issues: Morton, a former G.O.P. National Chairman, a hard-punching conservative; Wyatt, a founder of Americans for Democratic Action, one of the last of those who might be described as an unmistakable left-winger. The New Frontier made Morton's defeat...
...Bill Stinson, 32, a salesman seeking office for the first time. A federal indictment for trying to influence a mail fraud case was too great a handicap for Maryland's Thomas Johnson, who was unseated by Rogers Morton, strapping younger brother of Kentucky's victorious Senator Thruston Morton...