Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quest for the Republican presidential nomination, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week made a daring, four-day, 35-appearance assault on Nixon Country-the Pacific Coast-and came out swinging. In California, heartland of the Nixon-for-President movement, Rocky got a few bruises, changed hardly a vote. His luck was better in the friendlier climate of Washington and Oregon (Oregon's crucial primary will be held next May). But wherever he went. Rockefeller left the strong impression of a slugger who is going to wage an all-out campaign for the nomination he wants...
...Rockefeller invasion was shrewdly planned, and the mere sound of the Rockefeller trumpets from afar worried many Nixon supporters. "A synthetic boom could easily be organized," warned Nixonite Thomas Pike in a Paul Revere letter widely mailed to Los Angeles Republicans the week before Rocky's trip. But as Rockefeller first arrived on the scene, his every move seemed to be in the wrong direction. Early morning smog forced his plane to land in Burbank, 25 miles from Los Angeles' International Airport and the official reception. After an hour-long trip in a rattletrap bus, Rocky finally caught...
High-Flown Speeches. Everywhere Rocky went, the shade of Nixon was there to haunt him. So many Nixon supporters turned out for a big dinner at the Hollywood Biltmore that some of Rockefeller's own fans had trouble getting tickets. "Nixon Now" banners and badges bloomed everywhere, and the mere mention of the Vice President's name drew storms of applause. A huge photomural of Dick Nixon's face (flanked by the images of Dwight Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln) stared fixedly down at the challenger. Rockefeller's speeches drew respectful attention, but they were not much...
Needled Suggestion. At a San Francisco reception for Republican leaders, ardent Nixon supporters all, Rocky finally permitted himself to lose some of his smiling composure and got in some telling licks. Margaret Leete, president of the Republican Women's Federation, needled him with a suggestion: "You've always been first man, but now you should be second man." Flushing, Rocky shot back: "But you don't know me." When a debate on the merits of being Nixon's Vice President for eight years persisted, Rockefeller turned on his tormentors and snapped: "Don't go selecting...
...Oregon, Rockefeller responded in kind to the warm welcome of young (37) Governor Mark O. Hatfield, who, he said, would make a "wonderful" Vice President. And his feinting attacks moved closer to Dick Nixon. Following a speech at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, a student asked Rockefeller if he thought Nixon could get enough Democratic and independent support to win the presidency. Rocky, for the first time, expressed some oblique doubts. "I wouldn't know the answer to that," he solemnly told his 8,500 listeners...