It was not the most felicitous of announcements. The rhetoric rambled, the explanations were grandly nonexplicative, the answers to newsmen's questions sounded almost surrealistic in their unresponsiveness. But, as a Hamlet without a Shakespeare, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller did manage to make clear in Act III of his off-again, on-again presidential campaign that he had finally reached a decision. Then, on the very day that he proclaimed his "active candidacy," New York's Governor captured Massachusetts' Republican primary without even trying, followed up with a socko first day of stumping in Iowa. While...
Republicans: Act III
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