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President Ford moved swiftly to pledge his continued faith in the beleaguered Secretary. After receiving a phone call from campaign headquarters, Morton backtracked and declared that Kissinger was "an asset, not a liability" in the President's effort to win the nomination. Speaking in Wisconsin, Ford declared: "I would like Secretary Kissinger to be Secretary as long as I am President, and I can't expand on that." The morning after his primary victory in Wisconsin, the President went out of his way to share the psychological spoils with Kissinger. Said he: "I thought that the results certainly...
Last week his chances of becoming his party's nominee for the White House improved markedly. For one thing Jimmy Carter, Henry Jackson and Morris Udall bloodied each other in the New York and Wisconsin primaries. In New York, Jackson won almost as many delegates as the other two combined, but fell far short of the "landslide" he had predicted, while Carter barely managed to squeak by Udall in Wisconsin. The real winner was Humphrey, who hopes that a deadlock will force the Democratic convention to turn to him in July...
After the New York and Wisconsin count, the candidacies of Humphrey's rivals shaped up this...
...Mark Siegel, executive director of the Democratic National Committee, observed: "Carter had a rough week." In New York, he had hoped to do far better than his poor fourth place with 35 delegates, behind Jackson with 104, Udall with 70 and a block of 65 uncommitted delegates. In Wisconsin, Carter had hoped to win by a big enough margin to knock Udall out of the race. Instead, in a contest so close that NBC and ABC at first projected Udall as the winner (see THE PRESS), Carter got 37% of the vote, Udall 36%, George Wallace 13% and Jackson...
Harvard's varsity found itself victorious, as much to its own amazement as to the amazement of the losers--Penn, UCal Berkeley, Wisconsin, Navy and Washington--who, informed sources say, are still trying to figure out what went wrong...