Ambling out of his mother's Phillipsburg house on election night last week to acknowledge victory shouts from 3,000 cheering fellow Democrats, New Jersey's handsome Governor Robert Baumle Meyner smiled broadly at the carefully printed posters and signs held by the faithful. MEYNER IN '60, they read and GOODBYE
IKE, HELLO BOB.
Meyner's rout of Republican Malcolm Forbes was impressive enough for friends to promote him seriously for the 1960
Democratic presidential nomination. Ringing up the most votes ever cast for a Democrat in New Jersey, he carried 14 of the state's 21 counties (including...
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