The Nation - News from Feb. 28, 1986

Presidential hopeful Howard H. Baker Jr. appointed Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander to a committee studying whether Vice President George Bush already has the Republican nomination “locked up.” Baker, in Nashville, Tenn., for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, said Alexander would be chairman of the committee and that former New Hampshire Atty. Gen. Tom Rath would be the director. “Shortly after the November, 1986, elections, I will gather together my political advisers and make a final decision on whether to run for President or not,” said the former Senate Republican leader, who retired in 1984.