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Conservative Trio. Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer had dropped his favorite-son role in order to back Rockefeller. But neither Shafer's influence nor his choice to nominate Rockefeller could hold the entire delegation in line. Some of the Pennsylvanians had scant respect for their Governor, privately referring to him as...
Coffee and Cokes. Nixon won with no help at all from California and Massachusetts and only token support from three of the other large states, New York, Ohio and Michigan. He owed his victory to Illinois, most of the smaller states in the West and Middle West, and particularly to...
IN 1964 an eve-of-execution atmosphere enveloped San Francisco as the Republican Party convened to nominate its presidential candidate. Lyndon Johnson was at the zenith of his popularity. The G.O.P. was preparing to counter him with Barry Goldwater, an all-but-certain loser. The economy was booming, taxes were...
Republican Hour. Inside Convention Hall stands a 19-ft.-high, 500-lb. sculpture that epitomizes the party's high hopes for 1968. From its stainless steel stems hang 24 freeform wooden leaves. Twenty-three of them bear cameo-style carvings of past Presidents, including every Republican elected since Lincoln broke...
The name of Gov. George Romney of Michigan was placed into nomination by the chairman of the Nevada delegation, amid great cheering from an audience which was noticeably unenthusiastic about Agnew. There was also a move underway to nominate Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York, but the Mayor himself...