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« on: December 14, 2007, 09:44:32 PM » |
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« edited: December 14, 2007, 11:39:52 PM by Tammany Hall Republican »
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I will go with Governor George Romney of Michigan in 1968.
He was the front runner for the Republican nomination for some time, was making a very good impression on the elctorate, and it looked as if he may go all the way to the White House. Then he went to Vietnam, came back and gave his famous "brainwashed" statement. It was all downhill from there.
He was a tremendously gifted executive and leader, who would have made a great President. There would have been no Watergate scandal. America would have been well served with George Romney in the White House.
Going back 60 years if I may, Governor Thomas Dewey of New York has to rank as the candidate who should have been President, but wasn't. Dewey was the favorite to win in 1948, was a great District Attorney and a very effective Governor, and would have made a very capable President.
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