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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Arthur J. Goldberg. whose defeat was predicted almost immediately after the polls closed, was the first candidate to concede, shortly after...
...YORK. For weeks, Democrat Arthur Goldberg's campaign had pleased only his opponents-and New York insomniacs. Attempting to unseat three-term Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the pompous and verbose Goldberg inspired only an apt characterization that is a campaign cliche: "Yesterday I spent a week with Arthur Goldberg." But things began to steam last week as the usually decorous Goldberg responded to a Rockefeller charge with the earthy observation that "Rockefeller is full of bullshit." Pardon? "You can quote me," fumed Goldberg to startled reporters. "I want you to quote...
Rockefeller had brought Goldberg to a boil by charging that his foe had promised a $70,000-a-year job to a leading New York Democrat in exchange for a Goldberg endorsement. Clearly startled by the fury of Goldberg's reply, Rockefeller said, "I did not mean it in a disparaging or derogatory...
...Rocky's best week. New York Mayor John Lindsay, nominally a Republican, endorsed Goldberg. The action was in part tit for tat, since the Governor had endorsed Lindsay's Republican opponent in last year's mayoralty contest. Lindsay's action came only a day after Rockefeller had advised him to remain neutral...
...acted on principle and his charge that Rockefeller has drifted to the right provoked a sneer from Rockefeller: "Absurd-a complete distortion and misrepresentation of the facts." The Governor's public display of pique gave currency to the view that for the first time, Rockefeller clearly hears Goldberg's footsteps. Last week Rockefeller produced his own poll, showing him with a slender 2% lead...