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...favorites for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. In conversation with "political intimates," wrote Reporter Joseph H. Miller, Ike had made it clear he would happily support any one of four men - Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, Michigan's Governor George Romney, Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton or retired General Lucius Clay. What made the list notable was the conspicuous absence of the current front runners, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...hard to believe that this tasteless gaffe-riot is Producer-Director Morton DaCosta's third picture. But the other two were taken from stage successes Auntie Maine and The Music Man- and on those he had outside help...
...Since U.S. theology lags behind Germany's, the old quest was pursued in such works as Harry Emerson Fosdick's The Man from Nazareth (1949) and Morton Enslin's The Prophet from Nazareth...
There are several other such outsiders, most notably Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton and Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield. But any realistic political estimate must consider them much more likely as vice-presidential nominees than for the top place on the G.O.P. ticket...
This does not mean that Ike is not interested. He is. He makes it clear that Rockefeller, Goldwater, Romney and Scranton are all acceptable to him. He asks about Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield, even the Governor of his old home state, Kansas' John Anderson Jr. His face lights up when a visitor mentions as possibilities such old friends as retired Generals Lucius Clay and Al Gruenther...