Mississippi: See America First

Before the holocaust of Detroit, Michigan's Governor George Romney had worked out a timetable of international travels designed, like Richard Nixon's global peripatetics, to make him a Republican presidential candidate equipped by firsthand knowledge to deal with foreign policy. This month he was to tour Europe's capitals; he planned to visit South Viet Nam in November for his second personal look at the war.

But the summer's riots have changed his itinerary. Though he has not previously had any such deep involvement in urban problems, his embroilment in Detroit has caused him to switch...

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