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...swung into the offensive. On his own delegate-hunting safari through the West, he won the loudest applause by booming out: "Would you apologize to Khrushchev?'' Invariably, the audiences boomed back: "NO!" Back in Washington, L.B.J. studied the Moscow cables as carefully as the G.O.P.'s Thruston Morton had-and made fast political capital of them. Shortly after Khrushchev's latest blast, Johnson took to the Senate floor. "Premier Khrushchev has launched a verbal attack upon our President which reached new heights of vituperation," he cried. "The incident underscores the fact that the nation...
Last week Hoosier Halleck was hoisted from the floor to the rostrum to be permanent chairman of next month's Republican Convention in Chicago. National Chairman Thruston Morton, with a nod from Vice President Nixon, overlooked plain-mugged Charlie Halleck's lack of TV appeal, heeded Halleck's claim to the job by virtue of being the House Republican leader. Knowing Halleck's onetime dreams of a Nixon-Halleck ticket (unshared by Nixon), G.O.P. brass hoped that Halleck would accept the chairman's gavel as his full reward for work well done...
...first bugle notes of a cacophony that would be heard all summer. Until the summit collapse, the Republicans seemed in good control of the peace and prosperity issues. They may still be when all the dust settles. Where stood the peace issue now? Pondering the situation, G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton could only shake his head: "It hasn't jelled. It hasn't jelled...
...Seaton of Nebraska. If Texas' Lyndon Johnson is not on the Democratic ticket, and if Nixon decides to make a bir effort to hold the Southern states that President Eisenhower captured in 1956 -Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, Louisiana-the geographical emphasis might shift southward. Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton or, especially, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson (a Texan and an erstwhile Democrat) could provide the necessary Southern accent...
...liberals, moderate Democrats and Republicans, give him the 67 (two-thirds plus one) votes to win cloture and pass the legislation itself. Apparently the time was days away; when Oregon's maverick Democrat Wayne Morse offered a cloture petition in one predawn session, Kentucky's usually affable Thruston Morton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, strode to the clerk's desk and ripped...