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Nevertheless, as the more candid Republican strategists study the McGovern phenomenon, they are not at all as euphoric about the prospect of taking him on as they once professed to be. As a highly partisan observer of the McGovern operation in Miami Beach, Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton was impressed. Said he: "I came down here to take back the word that this is a force to be reckoned with-and you'd better believe it. There is a great unknown out there...
...Election of the President on the sixth floor of the Fontainebleau's new south wing. There, in three adjoining rooms, the G.O.P. set up an observation post with seven telephone lines, an A.P. ticker, a supply of liquor, hors d'oeuvres, and 18 uniformed "Nixonettes." Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and Colorado Governor John Love came by to keep tab on the opposition. So did some Democrats, mostly Wallace supporters. After two days of operation, the hired guards changed into more casual clothes, giving the area less of an armed-camp atmosphere...
...ROBERT MORTON...
...MUGGING by MORTON HUNT 488 pages. Atheneum...
...Alexander Helmer is the beginning of this remarkable study of crime and punishment in the U.S., 1964-72. The book has been minutely researched, gravely considered and artfully composed for maximum popular effect. To typify an era of ghetto violence, Author Morton Hunt (The Affair) aptly takes as his central instance the commonest of ghetto crimes, an actual attack performed by a gang of teenage drug addicts...