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...wanted Nixon to pick Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton, G.O.P. National Chairman, for his Vice President. Everybody agreed he would add to Republican appeal in the South. But after Kennedy's surprise choice of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson as his running mate, dismayed Nixonmen shared Kennedy's feelings that the South was lost to the Republicans. That made it all the more necessary to push the foreign-policy issue, in an effort to swing votes outside the South. His own mind made up, Nixon got the unanimous ratification of Lodge (who was Eisenhower...
...fortnight lopped out of Nixon's own busy campaign schedule might be considered a serious political misfortune, but Nixonmen argued that he could profitably use the hospital stay for needed rest and staff work. With Nixon abed. Running Mate Henry Cabot Lodge spent the Labor Day weekend touring Catskill mountain resorts and New York public beaches in company with Rockefeller...
...York Governor Nelson Rockefeller got another chance to say yes, ducked again. Forty top Republicans in New Hampshire (notable exceptions: two Nixonmen: U.S. Senator Styles Bridges and G.O.P. State Chairman T. Borden Walker) urged Rockefeller to run for the 1960 Republican nomination in the primary next March (the nation's first). Replied Rockefeller: "I wish I could give you a definite 'Yes' or 'No!' . . . but in all honesty I feel I cannot...
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