People: May 3, 1968

Republican unity was the luncheon order of the day at the G.O.P.'s annual Women's Conference in Washington. Gracing the head table, all smiles and good cheer, were Pat Nixon, 45, Happy Rockefeller, 40, Lenore Romney, 58, and Nancy Reagan, 44. After the banquet, though, the girls were on their own, fielding reporters' questions. Pat Nixon was gung-ho for the presidential race. "I have such confidence in him," she said of her husband. Happy Rockefeller was ready to go along too. "Anything Nelson does is all right with me," she sighed. But Nancy Reagan was definitely cool to the idea. "I feel...

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