Word: fainthearted
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...another surprise by naming someone like Massachusetts Senator Ed Brooke, a black. In advance, a top Nixon aide knocked the Brooke possibility down. "It isn't because he's black or liberal, but because he has opposed the President's war policy. There can be no faintheart on the war running with Richard Nixon." The same kind of reasoning was also applied by some White House aides to Illinois Senator Charles Percy. Other intriguing possibilities passed over by Nixon include New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who has drifted toward the right recently and had apparently bridged...
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