Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smile of victory on Rockefeller's face guaranteed that Rocky would endorse the party's platform and campaign for the party's ticket, helping Nixon's chances of carrying New York, with its hefty 45 electoral votes. And by working out a truce with Rockefeller, Nixon had tugged loose his restraining anchor in the Eisenhower Administration; barred by his position as Vice President from speaking out freely on issues, he had let Nelson Rockefeller speak...
...Nelson Rockefeller took on a new allure. "There's no longer any question about it," groaned a staunchly pro-Nixon member of the Republican National Committee staff. "If we're to have any chance at all against Kennedy-Johnson in November, Rockefeller's got to be on the ticket." Again and again during his erratic flir tation with the Republican presidential nomination, Nelson Rockefeller insisted that he did not want to be a candidate for Vice President. On the first of his two trips to Chicago last week, he repeated that he would "positively, absolutely" not consider the vice-presidential...
...implied threat of a showdown decided Nixon on a course of action that he had been turning over in his mind ever since the Democratic Convention nominated the Kennedy-Johnson ticket: a face-to-face conference with Rockefeller. Without ever discussing his plan with his staff, Nixon got New York Lawyer Herbert Brownell, Tom Dewey's (1944 and 1948) campaign manager and Attorney General in the original Eisenhower Cabinet, to call Rockefeller to arrange a meeting. Brownell suggested that the meeting take place at his home in Manhattan, but, on the telephoned advice of his staff ers in Chicago, Rockefeller...
...That evening, accompanied by his Air Force aide and one Secret Service agent, Nixon flew to New York on Eastern Air Lines' Flight 510.* After dinner (lamb chops) at the Fifth Avenue apartment, Nixon plied Rockefeller with reasons why he ought to run for Vice President on the Nixon ticket. He described his plans for making the vice-presidency an even more important office than it came to be during the Eisenhower Administration...
...Carolyn House, 14, a sturdy, 5-ft. 4-in. blonde from Los Angeles who still sports braces on her teeth and looks young enough to crash the ticket gate for half fare, gracefully stroked her way to a new American record of 19 min. 45 sec. in the 1,500-meter freestyle, longest and most grueling of all swimming events...