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this interview had come two weeks from now we would have been
able to discuss a very important appointment to the leadership of that
City committee. It's difficult for the party to advance in a city like
Baltimore based on preconceptions about what it stands for, what it
has stood for. I hope that my administration will make the party
more interesting to those who maybe are not as traditionalistic in their
approach to government as some that we've had in the past.

Q. Well, you've got two possible candidates for the United States
Senate to run against the incumbent Democratic Senator Brewster,
Congressman Mathias and Congressman Morton. Have you made any
choice between these men and do you think that either one of them
could win?

A. I think either one of them could win. I haven't made any choice
because, frankly, it's not up to me to make the choice. We've got a
very good Republican organization in the State, and we've been talk-
ing with our leaders throughout the State to try to marshal support
for these men or the one of them that eventually emerges. An unusual
situation is that they are both so good that the general Republican
leadership throughout the State says that you are good friends, you
decide who's going to run, and we'll be delighted to support either
one of you.

Q. Well, you have long supported Nelson Rockefeller and you've got
more people on your side today than when you were a lonely voice
crying in the wilderness a couple of years ago.

A. It was kind of lonely.

Q. Do you feel that the conservative strength in the party has di-
minished so that Rockefeller could be nominated? It seems to me that
the convention is going to be basically, philosophically, about the
same as it was in '64.

A. I think the difference is going to be that philosophy is not going

to be the main thrust of the convention The ascent to an articulate

voice by the 26 Republican governors, a new attitude on the part of
the Congressional leadership to reach for a pragmatism, or a problem-
solving approach, has changed the total complexion of the politics
within the Republican Party. In short, we want a winner. And I think
that regardless of whether the particular county chairman today wants
Mr. Nixon or Mr. Reagan or Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. Romney or who
else, he will get behind and support the eventual nominee. And I
think that he also recognizes that this year our party has to have a