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...bright touches in Kentucky's humdrum gubernatorial race was provided by an irreverent underground slogan: "Half an Oaf Is Better than Nunn." Republican Candidate Louie B. Nunn, 43, a back-country lawyer who in years past managed the successful senatorial campaigns of John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, countered with his own vaguely punny slogan: "Tired of War? Vote Nunn." Kentuckians chose Nunn. Defeating Democrat Henry Ward, 58, a former highway commissioner handpicked by retiring Governor Edward Breathitt, Nunn became the first Republican Governor elected in Kentucky since...
...weeks ago, New Jersey's Clifford Case and Kentucky's Thruston Morton pulled the lanyards on Lyndon. Last week Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper renewed his demand for an "unconditional cessation" of U.S. bombing against the North; Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, a dove turned mild hawk, seemed ready to change feathers again with a call for a bombing pause; and Illinois' Charles Percy, who has frequently voiced discontent over Viet Nam before, got 22 colleagues to cosponsor a resolution asking the President to insist Asia's non-Communist nations share more of the fighting with...
...heels of Case's attack came an outspoken rebuke by Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton. His forum was a convention of the Business Executives Move for Viet Nam Peace, a 950-member group that wants to end the bombing. Morton acknowledged that he once supported Johnson's Viet Nam policies, but declared: "I was wrong...
...home, at least two virulent former hawks, Senators Stuart Symington (D. Mo.), former democratic candidate for the presidential nomination, and Thruston B. Morton (R. Ky.), former national chairman of the Republican Party, are urging a change in policy...
...growing number of Republican leaders, in particular, no amount of rosy predictions will conceal the fact that Lyndon Johnson is vulnerable on the war issue. That conviction was reinforced during the Labor Day recess, when vacationing Congressmen sounded out their constituents. Said Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton: "The people I talked to a year ago were saying, 'Bomb hell out of that little country.' Now they're saying, 'Get out.' They're frustrated...