What other big time Republicans, national or state, from the fifties and sixties, spring to mind?
Bateman: Most of the Nixon cabinet folks would come in and out- New Jersey was fertile ground for Republicans in those days. They shy away today but they used to come through. Q: What was the political complexion of the state? Bateman: Well, it changed, but the Senate had always been Republican, the house was Democratic for four or five years and then became Republican in the sixties and then it went back Democrat and then came back-– and so it shifted. But we had Bob Meyner, who was an accident to become governor, that should have been a Republican governor. And then you had Dick Hughes who beat the guy, the labor leader. Jim Mitchell. Big Jim Mitchell. And then you had Bill Cahill, Brendan Byrne and Tom Kean. So it went back and forth at the gubernatorial level. But the legislature was Republican ‘til ’53 and then in the Nixon massacre in ’52, then our massacre in ’53, we lost control of the legislature, and then Tom Kean got it back. Q: You mean ’72 and ’73? Bateman: Yeah. Q: That w
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