Monday, Dec. 9, 1963
University Daily Kansan
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LBJ Hurts Goldwater's Chances
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Some Northern Republican leaders believe that the accession of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson to the White House has severely weakened Sen. Barry Goldwater's presidential chances.
And, they say, it is time for the GOP to start looking for a "liberal" candidate to offset the "southern" background of Johnson, the Democrats' expected nominee in 1964.
AMONG THOSE declaring yesterday that the political picture had changed abruptly with President Kennedy's death were Sens. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y.; George D. Aiken, R-Vt; and John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky.
While these senators did not raise the point, there was considerable speculation that Goldwater might withdraw his name from any consideration for the Republican nomination. The Arizona Republican has said he will announce his intentions next month.
The senator's statement came amid reports that former president Dwight D. Eisenhower had urged Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to make himself available for the Republican presidential nomination.
IN SAIGON, where he has served as U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam since August. Lodge said he had not received any message from the former chief executive. But he added, "I would consider seriously anything the general asked of me." A spokesman for Eisenhower said he had not communicated with Lodge, who was Richard M. Nixon's vice-presidential running-mate in 1960.
THE GIST OF THE Javits-Aiken-Cooper remarks was that a lot of Goldwater's strength lay in the belief he could capture the South for the GOP with his appeal for Dixie voters enraged by the late President Kennedy's civil rights efforts.
There was a feeling in Washington that the reports accurately reflected the ex-president's views, however. This feeling was strengthened by the statements of such "Eisenhower Republicans" as Javits, Alken and Cooper.
he had a chance of beating Johnson.
Over the past 11 years, starting with the 1952 battle for the nomination between Eisenhower and the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, R-Ohio, Lodge has picked up a number of enemies within the GOP hierarchy. Such feelings probably would be ignored, however, if it was thaugh
Cooper, who with the others agreed Johnson would be the Democratic nominee, said the Republicans may carry some Southern states, as they did in 1956 and 1960, but that his party would not carry the South as a whole.
But now, with Johnson the first President from the South since Andrew Johnson, any such assumption no longer was justified.
HE SAID THE GOP would have to look around for candidates with appeal in sections other than the South.
"I think we have to face the issue of civil rights," Cooper said, "I think that we have to be sure that our candidate can meet this issue, because I do believe that, with this change (President Kennedy's death), that our situation with respect to the South has changed also."
YEADON, England—(UPI) —Don Allen said today he has barred his 2-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, from using the telephone.
immediately changed when President Johnson came on the scene after the terrible tragedy." As he put it, "the barrel has been turned upside down."
JAVITS SAID he believed Goldwater's chances had "certainly changed." He said the altered situation had given rise to consideration of such men as Gov. William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania, Richard M. Nixon, Gov. George Romney of Michigan, and even former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, to say nothing of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.
Aiken agreed with his colleagues that GOP thinking now had swung more toward "a Northern candidate" because President Johnson, despite his strong civil rights stand, "is still a Southerner."
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She ran up an $8.40 bill in a month by phoning strangers all over England, having learned the system by playing with a toy plastic phone.
Javits agreed that "the situation
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