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Tuesday, June 29, 1965
Eyes of Nation on Romney, Wonder Boy of Michigan
By Harry Ferguson
LANSING, Mich. — (UPI) The eyes of Republican politicians across the country are on the governor of Michigan today. So are the eyes of Texas. White House division.
On the basis of his record over the last three years, George Romney looks good as a presidential candidate in 1968 to the men who are trying to pull the Republican party back together and find somebody who can give President Johnson a real race next time around the track.
And what does Romney think? Either he doesn't know now or he is keeping his own counsel. The most he would say in an interview here in the state capitol is that there are two possibilities in his immediate future, to run for another term as governor or to run for the U.S. Senate.
Schatz "HOW ABOUT RUNNING for something a bit higher than those?" he was asked.
"That's pure speculation," he said, "and I think it would not permit a maximum contribution to the party in its current needs . . . I think that unless we can pull all elements of the party together and get a very distinctive and adequate sense of direction that the party could go by the boards.
"But I don't think you can contribute adequately to the party strength at this time and be aspiring or pointing in your activities toward 1968. I think everybody in this party at this time ought to be pointing toward 1966 or this party could be in real trouble."
WHILE HE WAS saying these things the Detroit News published
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The distpatch said President Johnson had received the results of a private poll indicating that, as of now, Romney would be the toughest Republican to beat inside New York State. Richard Nixon was second, Barry Goldwater third, Nelson Rockefeller fourth.
informed of this dispatch, Romney smiled and let it go at that. Lest Republicans get elated too soon about their prospects, the News dispatch said the poll showed Johnson easily could beat any one of the four as of today.
WHAT ARE the credentials that Romney could bring to a presidential race if he should decide to run?
Johnson carried Michigan by more than 1 million votes in 1964. Romney defeated his Democratic opponent for governor, Neil Staebler, by about 380,000 and carried a Republican
lieutenant governor into office with him.
But a Democrat was elected attorney general and the two houses of Michigan's Legislature went like this: Senate — 15 Republicans; 23 Democrats. House—Republicans, 38; Democrats, 72.
OBVIOUSLY ROMNEY is a vote getter and a good politician. Good politicians always are reluctant to jump into any race too soon. Front-runners seldom win the Kentucky Derby or a presidential nomination,
as Nelson Rockefeller learned the hard way in 1964. You save your strength for the run through the stretch.
Romney works in his shirt sleeves, speaks fluently and with much fervor. He is buried under invitations to make speeches and accepts more than the average governor.
His opponents in both political parties read into this oratorical activity the meaning that Romney is speaking so often so he will be well known around the country.
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