Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon, had threatened to give Rockefeller embarrassing trouble at home (adding to the circumstance that Tom Dewey and other Manhattan G.O.P. bigwigs had cold-shouldered him). Insiders reported that Rocky had all but decided to bow out before starting on his Midwestern trip, had even authorized a preliminary draft of his exit lines. Apparently the results of the trip did nothing to change his mind...
Loyal Rockefeller partisans refused to see the withdrawal as a retreat. They dreamed headily that somewhere along the line Dick Nixon might stub his toe, that the Administration's gambles on foreign policy might fall apart and that delegates would call for a Rockefeller draft at the Chicago convention. Beyond that they had another dream: that somehow Nixon might get defeated in 1960. Presumably that would finish Nixon and open up to Rockefeller the vista...