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...Nixon hoped to accomplish all that with a brief platform that would state its aims in broad, general terms and leave the dangerous, controversial details of how and how much to be settled during the campaign. "We will not try to outpromise the Democrats," said Percy. G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston B. Morton openly voiced the hope that Rockefeller would find the platform so much to his liking that he would change his mind about running for Vice President...
...July 24 College News Conference (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Guest: Republican National Chair man Senator Thruston B. Morton...
Nixon had been considering G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston B. Morton, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, as the vice-presidential prospect most likely to help the ticket in the Border States and the South. But when Johnson joined up with Kennedy, Morton's appeal in the South lost much of its value. Morton does not want the vice-presidential nomination anyway, was relieved when he heard the Johnson news on TV. "We're off the hook!" he yelled to his wife...
...After saying last January that he expected to lead New York's 96-vote delegation to the G.O.P. Convention in Chicago, and writing Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton in May that he "would not attend in any capacity" because his "mere attendance could be misconstrued," Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week announced that he would lead the New York flock to the Chicago stockyards, after all.* Rocky finally decided the trip was worthwhile after he had been assured that the delegates would be pledged to no candidate, and that nobody in Chicago was going to ask him to be Vice...
...early versions of his statement, Rockefeller had assumed a poor Nixon showing in the California primary, but this was edited out (Nixon's California vote topped that of Democratic Governor Pat Brown). But Rocky's big bang still shocked some G.O.P. elders. Republican National Chairman Thruston B. Morton called his manifesto an "attack on the record of the Administration," acidly predicted that Democratic campaigners would quote it "liberally." Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater rapped Rockefeller as a "rich man's Harold Stassen...