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...Richardson's most idiosyncratic, some say weirdest, idea is a new Monroe Doctrine that would exclude both the U.S. and Soviet Union from any military involvement in Central America...
...Though Richardson, in a recent interview, rejected the label "liberal Republican," he has made it clear that he feels the party must move leftward if it is to gain a Senate seat...
...Richardson's friends say he is not proud of his most famous role as Attorney General in the "Saturday Night Massacre," when, during the Watergate scandal, he chose to resign rather than follow then-President Nixon's orders to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34. But campaign advertisements currently running on local TV stations hail his resignation--which made him a hero among liberals--as one of his greatest accomplishments...
...anyone were looking at the question of what the positions of a Republican candidate would have to be to have a chance of winning, they would have to come up with a candidate pretty much like me," said Richardson...
...Richardson said his popularity among independents--who make up 39 percent of the electorate--and moderate Democrats make him the best bet to win in November, and that the Reagan Administration has made maintaining a Senate majority a high priority. "They view with some seriousness the objective of maintaining Senate control," he added. "They [the Administration] think I'm the only Republican candidate who has a strong chance of winning...