Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neglected by the party leader in the White House, Republican organization fell almost completely apart while Democrats put together smooth-working machines in state after state. In California, Indiana and Utah, Republican factions spent more time fighting each other than fighting Democrats. But in Ohio Democrat Di Salle, beaten by O'Neill by 428,000 votes in 1956, went to work with State Chairman William Coleman, spent two years building up an effective organization, during the campaign held at least seven seminars in every congressional district to teach workers the best vote-hunting techniques. In Minnesota Democratic Representative Eugene...
...JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES) than presidential leadership. At a strictly political level, President Eisenhower showed little interest in his party. Last week even loyal Eisenhower-Republican Senator Cliff Case of New Jersey was moved to comment on Ike's lack of "love of politics and the political game." Said Utah's G.O.P. National Committeeman Jerry Jones, himself a middle-road Republican: "We have no political leadership. Ike, with his aloofness from politics-his attitude of being above it all-has made us all just a bit ashamed to be politicians." When Ike finally entered the 1958 campaign, the damage...
...defeat. Last week those same leaders were still grateful. But hardly a Republican leader anywhere could keep Rockefeller's name out of the Nixon conversation. Said Illinois Republican Claude Kent, himself a staunch Nixonite: "We think we have a strong new contender in this other fellow [Rockefeller]." Warned Utah's National Committeeman Jerry Jones: "As of now, I'd be a Nixon man. But if he slips too far to the right, the Republicans might find Rockefeller might turn out to be a Moses...
...Bluntly told the State of Utah (the richest oil-producing Navajo land lies in Utah) that they do not recognize the authority of the Utah Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in actions dealing with Navajo land...
...Passed their own right-to-work law, which is tougher than similar state laws in Utah and Arizona...