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WASHINGTON (AP) — Re publican Sen. Jacob K. Javits challenges the results of a na tional opinion poll indicating Richard M. Nixon could defeat any one of the three leading potential Democratic presiden tial nominees. Javits said in an interview that this sampling of potential voters will not affect efforts being made to get his fellow New Yorker, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, actively into the race to oppose Nixon for the Re publican presidential nomina tion. Nixon’s aides were so elated by the Gallup Poll results that they called the survey to the at tention of newsmen. “I think the poll which shows Nixon could defeat the Demo crats represents a fragmenta tion of the Democratic strength among three candidates,’ Jay Nixon, who has been fighting strate that he could beat a sin gle Democratic nominee who had his party united behind him. “Of course it’s better from Nixon’s standpoint that the poll showed him a winner rather than a loser. But in terms of the general election, I don’t think it means anything,” said Javits us said. “It does little to demon to shed the ‘can’t win” tag pinned on him after the 1960, presidential and 1962 California gubernatorial elections, got a political lift out of the poll which matched him individually with ‘Sens. Eugene J. McCarthy and ‘Robert F. Kennedy announced Democratic candidates, and Vice President Hubert H. Hum phrey, who is expected to an nounce Saturday. In the Republican camp, Nix on reported at Cheyenne, Wyo., Monday that he is picking up considerable second-round strength in states with favorite s on candidates. These non-primary states are being combed for Rockefeller support by Sen. Thruston B. Morton, R-Ky., and William E. Miller, the 1964 GOP vice presi dential candidate. Other Developments In other political develop ments: —McCarthy said in Cleveland there is a dangerous growth of military influence in American policies at home and abroad. The Minnesota senator said U.S. military involvement in Vietnam began with an air group and said ‘‘much the same thing has been started on a smaller scale in some South American countries.” —Nixon said in Reno he ex pects Kennedy to be his oppo nent for the presidency in No vember. “My guess is that if Kennedy rolls up the majorities I think he will in the primaries, he will be nominated,” Nixon said. —Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey says he “thinks” he will become a Democratic presi dential candidate. “I think so,” he told an Overseas Press Club Awards Dinner. “I think every thing will fall out right.” Hum phrey is expected to announce hie damainn Ontiendas: uD UTLIDIVIL OalulUuay.
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Eureka Times Standard
Eureka, California, US
Wed, Apr 24, 1968
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