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...Mormon who says he feels "emotionally close to George Romney but philosophically closer to Barry Goldwater," Clawson for several years has mailed paperback copies of Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative as Christmas cards. In his first term as mayor of Compton, he eliminated bonded indebtedness and reduced city tax rates by one-third, was promptly re-elected in 1961. In his campaign, Conservative Clawson ignored his opponents, trained his fire on the Kennedy Administration. Stumping district shopping centers, assembly lines, weddings, wakes and picnics, he urged the elimination of farm price supports, recognition of a Cuban government...
...Mormon, Romney already has some presidential support in states with sizable Mormon enclaves-Utah, Idaho, California and, curiously, Hawaii. But Romney's Mormonism can also be a political nobble, particularly in view of the Mormon Church's longstanding refusal to admit Negroes to its hierarchy. Moreover, in most regions, regular Republicans look askance at Romney as one who has stressed his role as a "citizens' candidate" and has seemed somewhat embarrassed by his Republican Party label. Says a veteran Senate Republican: "If he wants to get anywhere, George is going to have to forget that citizen-party garbage." As things...
...next day Romney was guest of honor at a reception attended by some 300 leading Washington businessmen and politicians. It was given by Mrs. J. Willard Marriott, Republican national committeewoman for the District of Columbia, a longtime Romney friend and, like Romney, a Mormon. Throughout his Washington visit, Romney steadfastly denied that he has any 1964 presidential ambitions. But both Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon* are known to look favorably on him, and it may be increasingly difficult for him to keep saying...
Jack's act was tough to follow, but Michigan Governor George Romney more than managed. Mormon Romney mused that he had 231 first cousins, thanks partly to a forebear who had four wives. Just imagine the situation in Washington today if the Catholics had allowed bigamy, chuckled Republican Romney. "And Kennedy thinks he has trouble finding jobs for his relatives...
...time a smoker was considered beyond redemption by the Mormon church. Now he can be brought into the church, given useful assignments and, if he breaks the habit, be fully accepted...