Another Republican was looking ahead to 1964, and already had his track suit on. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller told his first post-election press conference last week that he will run for re election in 1962, planning to remain, at least until 1964, top officeholder in the nation's most populous state. And what did he think about Dick Nixon's fortunes these days? Nixon, answered Rocky, is "one of the vital forces in the Republican Partybut I don't think, frankly, between elections when a party loses the presidency, that the party has an actual head."
Next evening Rockefeller got an argument from none...
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