POLITICAL NOTES: Who's for Whom, Sep. 5, 1960

¶ Mamie Eisenhower, reported her husband to a friend, is all out for Richard Nixon because she likes Pat. "Why," said Ike with a rocketing arm motion, "when Mamie thinks of Jackie Kennedy in the White House she goes 'Ssss!'"

¶ New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller offered up his first-born son to seal his new-found enthusiasm for Dick Nixon; Spanish-speaking Rodman, 28, will head a drive to turn out New York's Puerto Rican and Negro votes for the G.O.P. ticket.

¶ Wallaces Farmer, polling rural Iowa, found 49% leaning toward the Nixon-Lodge ticket,...

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