Nation: Who's for Whom

— Looking toward 1964, Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper allowed as how his party's "best chance" for success is a ticket headed by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller for President and California's Senator Thomas Kuchel for Vice President.

— Looking even farther into the future, Wisconsin's quixotic Democratic Senator William Proxmire named Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as "the leading choice right now for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968—although he apparently is not a Democrat." McNamara, former president of Ford Motor Co., joined the New Frontier as a registered Republican, but calls himself an independent. Proxmire did add that...

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