Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 10, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free press saturday february 10, 1968 Rockefeller still for crack at presidency new York special the economist at 59 years of age Nelson Rocker i Feller has been elected governor of new York state three times in 1958, 1962, but has yet to gain nomination for the presidency. He first appeared on the up Vicital scene nine years ago a new vigorous re pub Riding the wave of enthusiastic press notices and of a popular Victory Over Averell Harriman the incumbent c it i c governor of York state. In that Campaign Bis first bid for an elective office or. Rockefeller s manner As Well As strategy made a deep impression on Many of the leaders. A few of them hoped that be might secure the. Presidential nomination in i960, although they knew that Richard Nixon it All up months before the nominating convention. When or. Nixon lost g e r n o r Rockefeller be came the republicans Lead ing presidential hopeful for the press thought him a shoo in for the Nomina Tion. But Between 1960 and 1964 i. Rockefeller divorced his wife after 31 years of marriage and in the pro Cess skirted a somewhat unpleasant scandal. His re marriage shortly afterwards was an apolitical act to be sure but it was enough to alienate Large numbers of conservative groups particularly in die South and the Midwest where Funda mentalism still survives As a. Strong cultural Force. The opinion polls indicated that women voters were offended by the divorce and the Quick new marriage. Those party leaders who mistrusted or. Rockefeller s Brand of republicanism were thus Able to justify their political Tion of him on personal grounds. They were about the. Civil rights move distrusted those who came from the Eastern states of Wall Large Banks and wealthy influential and hostile to the idea of a Strong Central government. And or. Rockefeller was identified with All . Nevertheless neither they nor he were quite prepared for the booing the jeers the venom that greeted him a foreign news exclusive at the 1964 Republican convention in san Francisco. It was perhaps the first time in or. Rockefeller s life that his influence his wealth and his name counted for Noth ing. The crowd that repudiated him so aggressively consisted of the supporters of Barry Goldwater packed into the galleries Middle class men and women from Small towns and Middle sized cities republicans of the 1920s in or. Rocke Feller they recognized a very real enemy. For he was and continues to remain an International is in political Outlook a townsman by temperament and a patrician by virtue of birth and inheritance. He favors putting National be fore local interests and accepts modernization and the necessity for Strong Central government almost without question. His Politi Cal views Are almost a natural outgrowth of his position. To him the Obliga. Tons of rank require that the lower classes be helped raised to higher income Levels and provided with the necessities that an affluent society has to offer and to do this is the responsibility of the Federal government. When the Republican hopefuls began to jockey for 1968 positions Early in 1966, or. Rockefeller remember ing the painful encounter in made it Clear that he was not a presidential Candi Date. There is. No reason to doubt the sincerity of that initial statement. Manifestly the governor had no desire to submit himself to the mob again. Nor did his wife want him to Campaign for the office. And in truth there May also have been a touch of coriolanus about the Deci Sion. After All the party which had nominated or. Goldwater in 1964 hardly deserved a Saviour. Create Model instead or. Rockefeller devoted himself to new York state politics. Even there in Early 1966, he seemed a sure loser Accord ing to All the surveys if he ran for office again. To do Well in new York became for him an act of political survival but it was a Point of Pride As Well. If he was never to govern the country he at least would govern t new York he would create within the state a Model for the rest of the country to. Follow. All the Domestic problems confronting America were present with in new York an out Moded educational system poverty and unemployment inadequate Public transport. The 1966 Campaign for the governorship took careful planning an intelligent and capable staff and a lavish use of Money million the democratic candidate spent about the Victory was impressive and vindicating. Convinced again it was 1958 All Over again and for the. Needs of the Large corporations the Eastern internationalists and the Liberal republicans or. Nelson Rockefeller was once again the party s most qualified presidential Candi Date. But it has taken some talking on their part a spate of leaders and columns by influential Jour nals and journalists and a series of polls All showing gov Rockefeller far ahead of other republicans to convince him that he just might be a presidential candidate one last time. The difficulty is that in spite of his slow change of mind or Rockefeller still has Strong reasons for not declaring h i s candidacy. One word and he would draw the fire of All the regular republicans to whom he is anathema because of his lukewarm support for or Nixon in the 1960 Campaign and his ostentatious anti Goldwater position in 1964. His views would be solicited on every conceivable political Issue and he would become vulnerable to attack from All sides. Thus or. Rockefeller finds himself pursuing an Active policy of non action. It Bias certain advantages besides the Money and Energy that it saves him this strategy provides him with what Many of his advisers believe is his Only Chance of securing the one Post finally that he believes he is trained to occupy. Unfortunately it looks As if or. Nixon May have a majority of the delegates All lined up Long before the nominating convention meets in Miami in August unless or Rockefeller openly takes Overlie Liberal Flag from George Romney in the Early Spring. But maybe or Romney will do in the new Hampshire election in March than is now expected. Meanwhile however or. Rockefeller can still enjoy the luxury of not commit Ting himself on the War in Vietnam or the race War 111 America s cities. He has however taken a Strong stand on cml rights for negroes Anft More than a year ago before he was a serious non candidate he expressed his support for president Johnson s policy in Vietnam. Since then be has managed to keep a discreet silence while his experience in the state department 1940s and the Early 1950s is inconclusive or. Rockefeller s views tend to parallel those of Dean Rusk and Dean Acheson the present and past democratic secretaries of state Strong commitments to the North at lactic treaty organization and Protection of National interests firmly anti communist though sympathetic to the idea of Trade Nelson Rockefeller with East Europe in Brief the need for american domination based on the implicit Assumption that America is Superior be cause it is virtuous. It is politics and peace strengthened by the certainty that rectitude and god Are on one s Side an attitude that during his earlier campaigning. Was v known to journalistic bom fog the Teother Rhewl of Man the Falm rowed of it Vou take an o is exc hence Ornise to like All general motors Mark of excellence cars Oldsmobile Jority Over All other cars class. 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