"Why," demanded the Medford, Ore., Mail Tribune, "should any Republican be attracted to a man who has lost elections, who is a lousy campaigner, who would be the oldest President to be inaugurated since James Buchanan, who is a member of the present Administration, whose views on the issues of the day are completely unknown, and who's 6,000 miles away doing a lousy job of running a nasty little war?"
But Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge seemed about to run away with the May 15 Republican primary in Oregon. The latest Lou Harris poll gave him...