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...survey began March 16, the day that Kennedy announced his candidacy, and ended four days later, just before Nelson Rockefeller withdrew from the race. Even while the New York Governor was still considered a potential candidate, he ran a poor third in the Republican segment of the Roper poll, which gave Richard Nixon 73%, Ronald Reagan 9% and Rockefeller...
While Democratic presidential candidates thronged to the race, Republican contenders seemed more concerned with getting out. Last week, only 22 days after Michigan's Governor George Romney bowed out of the run, Nelson Rockefeller abruptly and all but finally removed himself from contention...
...because he is a loser, but because he no longer has any stomach for the fight. He even seemed disdainful of the battle. As he confided to an aide with all too evident relief after the Washington breakfast: "I never really wanted this anyway." Hours after his withdrawal, Nelson Rockefeller emplaned for a brief vacation at Laurance Rockefeller's hotel on Puerto Rico's Dorado Beach. It was at that opulent retreat, in November 1967, that New York's Governor drew up and promulgated a strategy by means of which he hoped a moderate Republican could capture...
...campaign. A charismatic state figure stumping for the President could conceivably excite the masses in the state to vote against the local Kennedy machinery. Fortunately for Kennedy, there are no pro-Johnson Democrats in the state with that kind of appeal. Frank O'Connor, who lost badly to incumbent Nelson Rockefeller in the 1966 gubernatorial race, is not an exciting man. Averell Harriman, former governor, is of a by-gone era. Joseph Resnick, running as an LBJ-supporter in the statewide primary for United States Senator, has little to recommend him but his heavy campaign spending...
More and more Republicans have come out in support of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) for President since Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller removed his name from the Oregon primary ballot last Thursday...