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Show Landon Removes Self As Candidate in 1940 W WASHINGTON, De. 10 t& ; Alt M. Landon, appearing relieved ' to Ret a load off hii cheit, told newsmen today he would not take the 140 Republican preaidential nomination if it were offered him. His words were weighed apparently ap-parently thought out before he met I the reporters but his manner was almost gay when he said he wanted "I will not accept the nomination In the remote contingency that the Republican national convention should offlrTt to me." he declared. Surrounding Landon were a number num-ber of correspondents who traveled with him during hia 1036 preaidential preai-dential campaign, when he was the Republican standard bearer Landon told them he was not withdrawing from politics which carried him to the governorship of Kansas and then to be the Republican Republi-can convention choice to oppose President Roosevelt last year. On the other hand, he aald, ha hoped by clarifying his portion to make himself more useful to hia party. He aaid some of hia recent acta had been "misconstrued." The Kansan made his statement soon after he arrived here for the Gridiron club dinner, a semi-annual newspapermen's party. He bad hardly settled down to phone, by a White House secretary lo call on Mr. Roosevelt. What they would talk about waa not disclosed beforehand. A year ago when Landon visited the capital to attend the gridiron AI.F M. LANDON Mill In PoliUea, However dinner he visited the president and reported afterward they had talked fishing. |