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...early versions of his statement, Rockefeller had assumed a poor Nixon showing in the California primary, but this was edited out (Nixon's California vote topped that of Democratic Governor Pat Brown). But Rocky's big bang still shocked some G.O.P. elders. Republican National Chairman Thruston B. Morton called his manifesto an "attack on the record of the Administration," acidly predicted that Democratic campaigners would quote it "liberally." Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater rapped Rockefeller as a "rich man's Harold Stassen...
...Washington Teletypes blurted out the bulletins from Moscow, each new outburst of Nikita Khrushchev was brought immediately to the desk of Republican National ChairmanThruston Morton. Pondering the cables, Morton came to the tentativeconclusion that the Soviet dictator's tirades against President Eisenhower had improved the chances of the G.O.P. "Khrushchev has no friends in this country," he said. "It doesn't hurt to have him attack you." The Democrats agreed. Said Louisiana's Senator Russell Long: "I'm going to declare war on Khrushchev if he doesn't say the same thing about Lyndon Johnson...
...into the offensive. On his own delegate-hunting safari through the West, he won the loudest applause by booming out: "Would you apologize to Khrushchev?'' Invariably, the audiences boomed back: "NO!" Back in Washington, L.B.J. studied the Moscow cables as carefully as the G.O.P.'s Thruston Morton had-and made fast political capital of them. Shortly after Khrushchev's latest blast, Johnson took to the Senate floor. "Premier Khrushchev has launched a verbal attack upon our President which reached new heights of vituperation," he cried. "The incident underscores the fact that the nation has a pressing...
Last week Hoosier Halleck was hoisted from the floor to the rostrum to be permanent chairman of next month's Republican Convention in Chicago. National Chairman Thruston Morton, with a nod from Vice President Nixon, overlooked plain-mugged Charlie Halleck's lack of TV appeal, heeded Halleck's claim to the job by virtue of being the House Republican leader. Knowing Halleck's onetime dreams of a Nixon-Halleck ticket (unshared by Nixon), G.O.P. brass hoped that Halleck would accept the chairman's gavel as his full reward for work well done...
...bugle notes of a cacophony that would be heard all summer. Until the summit collapse, the Republicans seemed in good control of the peace and prosperity issues. They may still be when all the dust settles. Where stood the peace issue now? Pondering the situation, G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton could only shake his head: "It hasn't jelled. It hasn't jelled...