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Without ever openly declaring himself a candidate for the G.O.P. presidential nomination. Rockefeller set out last autumn to try to stir up support west of the Hudson River, encountered neither public nor Republican enthusiasm, and found that the party's leaders thought Nixon would be the better candidate by far. With a sourish complaint that the Republicans who would control the convention were "opposed to any contest for the nomination," Rocky declared himself out of the running. Then and later he refused to endorse Nixon for President...
Jolted Strategy. Dick Nixon likes to say that what a political candidate needs most, and is least likely to find in the heat of campaigning, is time to think. To get time to think in 1960, he set aside the fortnight preceding the opening of the Republican Convention in Chicago. With his staff protecting him from intrusions, he spent most of the time at his fieldstone house in the Wesley Heights section of Washington ? and he found plenty to think about, more than he had expected. Jack Kennedy's choice of Lyndon Johnson as his Democratic running mate jolted...
...Kennedy picked an old friend, New Jersey Congressman Frank Thompson Jr., 42, as the head of a nationwide organization of door-to-door volunteers. Said Thompson, after a fast trip to Hyannisport: "We're going to canvass every precinct." ¶The usual "independent volunteers" or ganization was set up, charged with luring not only independents and Republicans into the Kennedy camp, but also "dissident Democrats" - that is, Northern and Eastern Democrats who cannot stand Johnson, and Southern Democrats who quail at Jack. National Chairman: Denver Lawyer (and onetime University of Colorado All-America football hero) Byron ("Whizzer") White...
...Wednesday, a concert will be given by Shirley Suddock, soprano, Rowland Sturges, plano, Mary Fraley Johnson, violoncello, and Howard Brown, flute. The program includes lieder by Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf; Fetes Glantes, set I, of Debussy and Chanson Madecasses by Maurice Ravel...
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