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He certainly did.

--a constituency and did he not do this apparently without alienating whites to any great extent, or at least--?

Apparently he didn't alienate whites that would make a negative difference in terms of this last election. He apparently was very skillful. Maybe not quite as popular in the state as Kean is in New Jersey, but from what I observed, and I've been going down to Richmond frequently on a desegregation case, from what I gather Robb is a very skillful, political operator.

I've read that some Virginia political analysts feel that had he been eligible for a second term that he would have been swept in much as Kean was.

Yes.

It was said that there was something similar in their styles of governing, of governance.

I suspect that he will have to be reckoned with on a national scale in the Democratic Party. Democrats have been looking for new faces, candidates in terms of the national political thing. Mr. Reagan can't run again, and I suppose in the Republican side [George] Bush or [Jack] Kemp--Republicans seem to be lining up their