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Neither Nixon nor New York's Nelson Rockefeller appeared before the Dirksen group. In a statement sent to the committee, Nixon broke his four-month silence on Viet Nam to adopt a position close to Rockefeller's, but with few specifics. Rockefeller's stand came last month in a detailed proposal envisaging step-by-step military disengagement by Hanoi and Washington. Nixon declared: "The war must be ended." He implied that he would treat with the Viet Cong as well as with the North Vietnamese by saying that serious negotiations must include "as many as possible...
With Wallace drawing up to one-fifth of the straws in some polls, there is cause for concern. The Republicans are particularly worried because of his strength in the South. Boosters of both Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan are using the Wallace threat in their attempts to pry loose Richard Nixon's convention delegates. Florida's Republican Governor Claude Kirk is distributing an arithmetical bumper sticker: 2P÷ GW= H³ Translation: Two parties divided by George Wallace equals Hubert Horatio Humphrey. The Democrats, also, fear that Wallace could hurt them in blue-collar areas outside Dixie...
...William F. Buckley Jr., the arch, conservative editor of National Review, liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller is so far out in left field that he's out side the G.O.P. park. Yet every time Buckley opened a newspaper, there was Rocky's determined visage adorning a full-page ad filled with short-sentence solutions to the Viet Nam war, riots in the cities and inflation. Buckley finally asked Associate Editor C. H. Simonds to see if he could outdo the Manhattan agency of Jack Tinker & Partners Inc., which supplied the Rocky ads. The result, in the current National Review...
...C.A.M. Academy has chalked up a better college admittance record than that of Chicago's public high schools. Of the 30 dropouts who were graduated at C.A.M. this spring, 20 will go on to college in September. "When they get here, they are all messed up," says Mary Nelson, founder of the academy. "It takes six months to un-mess them...
Just one day after the Gallup poll showed Richard Nixon to be stronger against either Hubert Humphrey or Eugene McCarthy than is Nelson Rockefeller, the Harris poll published the opposite results. Later, in a joint statement, the two pollsters defended themselves and each other, and suggested that Rockefeller was ahead and gaining steadily with the people...