DEMOCRATS: Meyner in the Majors

Stroking toward the crest of the Democratic tide that swept him back into office last fall, New Jersey's Governor Robert Baumle Meyner last week left the banks of the Delaware at Trenton for the banks of the Potomac to make his first full-dress speech since his reelection. Addressing an overflow audience in Washington's National Press Club, Meyner promptly identified himself as a politician, pointed out that politicians are nice to have around when the nation is in difficulty. Translation: Bob Meyner, 49, is very much available in 1960, when Democrats go after...

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