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The Romney reaction reflected a widespread sense of deflation and even resentment on the part of G.O.P. moderates. "I'm not often fooled," said Thrus Morton with tears in his eyes. "Maybe I poor-mouthed his chances too much, but I think he could have been nominated." Still, there...
Spong, who lives in Portsmouth, rose to prominence as the leader of the urban bloc in Virginia's General Assembly. For 30 years the late Sen. Harry F. Byrd's Organization dominated the state's politics, with the only opposition coming from the small Progressive wing of the Democratic Party...
Like most of the moderates, Spong is a middleaged, socially prominent lawyer. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College, where his friends included the sons of three past Virginia governors, and then went to Europe with the 8th Army Corps during the Second World War. After the war, he studied law...
Responsible and brainy, Morton has lately harbored an anguished heart. He painfully broke with Lyndon Johnson on the Viet Nam war, looked with dismay at Dirksen's troglodyte image, and saw his party heading for a replay of the 1964 Goldwater debacle. George Romney bored him, Charles Percy faded...
Whether Galbraith's program can be considered superb?or even modestly right?is questioned by defenders of U.S. policy. It is hard to believe, for example, that abandoning most of the countryside to the Communists?the very core of Galbraith's plan?would not embolden and stiffen them rather than...