Word: cavanagh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presidential bid, then, depends heavily on what happens to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death this week of Senator Pat McNamara. Romney will probably appoint the already hand-picked Republican candidate, Congressman Robert Griffin. The fiercely contested Democratic primary between ex-Governor G. Mennen Williams and Mayor Cavanagh will probably help Griffin, and both Democratic candidates will have serious electoral weaknesses. Romney will certainly be out campaigning hard this fall to keep Griffin in the Senate--and to put a public relations man in the White House...
...choice is in some cases apt to be dictated by old loyalties rather than performance or promise. A case in point is Michigan, where COPE almost certainly will throw its weight behind former Governor G. Mennen Williams in his contest with Detroit's dynamic (and liberal) Mayor Jerry Cavanagh for the Senate nomination. It may also try to influence primaries in Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, and any other Southern state in which nonracist candidates may surface. In all, COPE will probably spend about $1,000,000 in 1966 on its three-pronged effort to register voters, promote...
...suprising, then, that Cavanagh enjoys the favor, and patronage, of the President and that Williams is not well thought of in Washington. (They say that the President does not forget the sight of Soapy and Nancy Williams climbing on their chairs and shouting "No!" to the motion to make unanimous the Vice Presidential nomination it the 1960 convention.) Nor is it surprising that most Michigan Democratic politicians, who retain the Fifties Liberal perspective, passionately favor Williams...
...outcome of the Democratic primary in August is harder to predict. Cavanagh is counting on edges among Negro voters (his excellent civil rights record being more recent this Williams's), young voters (who tend to associate Williams with the bitter recession years and Cavanagh with prosperity), and Republican crossovers (there are no major Republican primary contests'. Williams has the backing of the Democratic organization and of most labor unions, including the state AFL-CIO. Odds currently favor Williams, but the result probably depends on which groups of voters turn out in greater numbers...
What almost everyone overlooks is the fact that either candidate is likely to have a tough time beating his Republican opponent, Congressman Robert Griffin. Williams will suffer from his unearned reputation as the man who bankrupted the state, Cavanagh from commuters' resentment at the city income tax. Both candidates are apparently restraining themselves from attacking these weak spots, but if the hatred that really does exist between Fifties and Sixties Liberals becomes too intense, they might give Griffin the opening he will be all too ready...