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Lacerated Brow. Yet Rockefeller's initial reaction was to maintain his aloof stance. Soon after arriving in Washington, he went to his 35-acre estate on Foxhall Road for a conference with his brother, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas, and Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Agnew was eager to line up specific commitments from as many of the Republican Governors as possible, to create a draft, in effect, from that powerful group. Rockefeller and George Hinman, his chief political aide, froze the idea at once. Agnew, who had come to Washington saying it was time to stand...
...dearth of traveling companions. In Maryland, Governor Spiro Agnew announced that he would organize a draft-Rockefeller movement "in response to the ground swell of public opinion that I have seen developing." Sixty-six prominent Republicans in Oregon set up a similar group, vowing they would conduct a Rockefeller write-in campaign for the Oregon primary should he refuse to allow his name on the ballot. Said Governor Tom McCall: "If this effort can help bring Rockefeller into the Oregon primary, then its sponsors will have performed a public service of national magnitude...
Pragmatism & Sentiment. Agnew and McCall are liberals and longtime Rockefeller buffs; they were merely repeating their well-known views. But Congressman John Ashbrook of Ohio, a conservative who was one of Barry Goldwater's earliest supporters before the last election, talked out of pragmatism rather than sentiment. "Rocky is coming on real strong," Ashbrook has been telling his constituents. "The key is that Rocky is popular with most of the 26 Republican Governors while Nixon has little support among this group." William Miller, Goldwater's running mate, has also called Rockefeller the party's strongest choice, although...
...have a feeling for them," bought the Monet from a Manhattan gallery for $11,000. Last week The Terrace was up for auction at Christie's in London on behalf of Pitcairn's Beneficia Foundation. The winning bid of $1,410,000 by London Art Dealer Geoffrey Agnew was nearly triple the record auction price for a Monet and almost double that for any impressionist painting. The new auction high also firmed up the floor under top impressionist paintings. The price was right in line with the estimated $1,400,000 that London's National Gallery paid...
...create jobs in ghettos by offering tax incentives to businesses that locate there. But on national politics he had nothing to add to his remark of the previous week: "I don't want to be President." Lest this discourage Rockefeller's fans, Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew, one of his most irrepressible supporters, declared cryptically: "Rockefeller is just as much of a non-candidate as he was before...