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In November 1963, the conservative political establishment including Dwight Eisenhower, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, Bill Robinson of the Herald Tribune, Augusta’s Cliff Roberts and Slats Slater met at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, concerned about the bandwagon developing for Barry Goldwater. They were anxious to discuss “moderate alternatives,” including Pennsylvania's Gov. William Scranton, Henry Cabot Lodge and Michigan Gov. George Romney.

This last week, a new political establishment made up of hedge-fund managers, Republican donors, industrialists, a personal investment guru and other billionaires, mostly based in New York and former Bush employees and family members, including Barbara Bush, gathered or spoke together to find an alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Barbara Bush?

And they came up with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

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