The Nation - News from Dec. 7, 1986

The nation’s Republican governors, their numbers boosted by the November election, gathered in Parsippany, N.J., to begin charting a new direction for the GOP. At the top of the agenda of the Republican Governors’ Assn. were sessions on drugs in society and the future of the party, which lost control of the Senate last month. Former President Richard M. Nixon will speak Tuesday. New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean, incoming chairman, said: “We invited him (Nixon) to give us a briefing on foreign policy.”