Nation: KEYNOTE TO OPPORTUNITY
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The party's confidence recalls the comment offered by Pennsylvania's Republican boss, U.S. Senator Boies Penrose, on the eve of the 1920 convention that nominated Warren Harding. "Any good Republican," he declared, "can be nominated for President and can defeat any Democrat." Any such statement today would seem unrealistic and overbearing. Daniel Evans warns of that danger in his keynote speech. "In a very real sense, this is the Republican Hour," he said in his draft address. But it could slip by, he indicated, unless the G.O.P. made the most of it. "What is at stake now is whether the Republican Party can rise to the challenge created by the winds of a new direction," said Evans, "or whether, in defiance of history, we choose to retreat when the nation clearly calls."
* Moreover, Nixon's men saw no particular problem in the constitutional clause prohibiting electors from casting votes for both a President and a Vice President from the same state. If Nixon were elected and the loss of New York's electoral votes threatened to deprive Lindsay of the vice-presidency, there would be nothing to prevent Nixon from moving to another state for the period between Election Day and Dec. 16, when the Electoral College meets.
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