Paul West, in Governing (Jan. 1988), 1414 22nd St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037.
Many U.S. presidential candidates-and presidents-have been state gov- ernors. West, a Baltimore Sun correspondent, notes that many sitting governors, including Thomas E. Dewey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Nelson Rockefeller, "attempted to use their states as laboratories in gearing up to run for national office, with obviously mixed results." Our last two presi- dents have been former governors; Democrat Jimmy...