REPUBLICANS: The Great Surprise
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Sense of Unreality. When he was beaten by Jack Kennedy in 1952, Cabot Lodge thought his political career over for good. He still has a slight sense of unreality about suddenly being very much back in politics, running for Vice President of the U.S. "It's a very strange feeling," he said at the start of his campaign tour. "I haven't gotten used to it."
By last week, as he met with cheers, applause and eager handshakes at one campaign stop after another, Candidate Lodge was obviously getting used to running for Vice President, and was plainly an asset to the Republican ticket. It may be that he will help it enough to get even with the man who defeated him in 1952.
* While in the Trib's Washington bureau, he worked as a stringer-correspondent for the young magazine TIME.
* Many a vice-presidential nominee has failed to swing his home state to his ticket. Examples: Illinois' Adlai E. Stevenson (grandfather of the sometime presidential candidate) in 1900, New York's Franklin Roosevelt in 1920, Iowa's Henry Wallace in 1940, California's Earl Warren in 1948, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver in 1956.
* Lodge still occasionally antagonizes a newsman by addressing him as "my good man" or "my dear man," but he is fighting the habit. At a press conference in Chicago last week, he used "my dear man" in speaking to a reporter, then smilingly corrected himself: "I was criticized for using that phrase, so strike it."
* Episcopalian Lodge's Roman Catholic grandsons are the children of his son Henry, an electronics sales executive, whose wife is a Roman Catholic. The Episcopalian grandsons are children of Assistant Secretary of Labor George Lodge.
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