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...that the Michigander's campaign will turn into a holding operation, coalescing the party's moderates and keeping them in the forefront until another middle-of-the-road candidate with a realistic chance of gaining the nomination can step in. Cheering Romney last week on his announcement, Nelson Rockefeller observed: "A wise national Republican Party will choose a moderate, able, winning candidate in 1968." Despite all of Rocky's disclaimers, some Republicans thought that rather than prescribing for Romney, he was describing Nelson Rockefeller...
Flapping Smartly. Dashing John Lindsay, 46 this week, is, of course, far down on the list of G.O.P. possibilities for 1968, and with Governor Nelson Rockefeller dominating the party in New York, Lindsay has no strong organizational base of his own. The Rockefeller-Lindsay relationship has not been harmonious, the latest discord occurring, paradoxically, because Lindsay has been boosting Rockefeller's candidacy and because one of Lindsay's aides is prominent in a draft-Rockefeller group. Such efforts erode Rockefeller's façade of noncandidacy at a time when the Governor prefers to remain committed...
When McCloskey and Archibald meet in the December 12 general election, the voters will have a choice between a Republican who is a professed admirer of G.O.P. Liberals Nelson Rockefeller, John Lindsay and Charles Percy, and an L.B.J. Democrat. All the indications give a clear edge to Republican McCloskey...
...York: Rooky's Triumph New Yorkers overwhelmingly approved the biggest bond issue ever proposed anywhere-$2.5 billion to revitalize the state's highways, airports, commuter railroads and city subways. The outcome was a major political victory for Nelson Rockefeller, who had stumped the state on behalf of the transportation issue as vigorously as if he were campaigning on his own behalf...
...change of electoral heart? One powerful reason was offered by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who had argued for his big bond issue on grounds that the alternative could be a "major tax increase." Many voters, already fretting over the prospect of rising federal taxes, trekked to the nation's polls with the thought that taking on a public debt with bonds would at least put off local tax increases...