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from WASHINGTON straight

by Sam M. Jones

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from WASHINGTON straight A NEWSLETTER sam m.jones Out of the West

Toward the end of President Eisenhower’s Denver convalescence, he had an hour-long chat with an old friend, Dan Thornton, former Governor of Colorado. In the wake of that meeting comes word of a political stirring and rallying in at least eight plain and mountain states. Ranchers and farmers in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Texas, New Mexico and Nebraska are reportedly organizing in support of Cattleman Thornton for the Republican Presidential nomination.

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