New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller got up one grey morning last week to appear on NBC's Today show at 8:30. It happened to be one time of day that he could get guaranteed, live, national network coverage for his big announcement. Said Rocky: "I am here this morning—and I shall go to New Hampshire immediately following this meeting—formally to announce my candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination and my entry, at the proper time, in the New Hampshire primary election of March 10, 1964."
People might have been more surprised if he had told them the sun had come up on...
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