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Dispirited moderates: Says Gov. John Chafee of Rhode Island: “After having had Scranton, Romney and Rockefeller shot out from under me, I’m not picking anyone else.” Hints James Rhodes of Ohio: Rockefeller shouldn’t take the Ohio delegation for granted. Rhodes will take his stand on basis of a poll he’ll take in Ohio in June. . . . Says Gov. Spiro Agnew of Maryland: “His [Rockefeller’s] refusal to become an active candidate is not a good reason to repudiate Richard Nixon,” therefore Agnew has refused to join the stop-Nixon Coalition for a Republican Alternative. . . . Charles Percy, Mark Hatfield, John Lindsay moving up with the press as possible last ditch GOP alternatives to RN, but Percy for one playing coy: Nixon just might offer him the Vice Presidential spot. . . . George Romney reportedly sore at Rockefeller; it was Rocky’s “iffy” statements about his draft ability that helped decide Romney on his bug-out. . . . Switchboard operator Carol McChesney announces she’s available for non-political job: she manned board first in Washington’s Romney for Prexy headquarters, then in short lived Rocky hq. . . . Verdict of Washington Post political columnist David Broder on Rockefeller was: “The plain fact is that in 1968, as in 1960 and 1964, the Eastern, liberal, urban-oriented wing of the Republican Party has lost the nomination struggle—through miscalculation and timidity, lack of skill, lack of discipline and lack of strength.”

A ripple from the West: Last week Reagan supporters launched their Oregon primary campaign with the showing of 30-minute color TV flick of various Reagan appearances and speeches. . . . Robert C. Walker, a San Diego pr-man who worked for Richard Nixon last year, turned up in Miami Beach to head up a Reagan campaign headquarters—five months ahead of the convention. Count them: Reagan now has in his employ 1) Walker, 2) F. Clif White and 3) and 4) the head men of Spencer Roberts. Would Reagan settle for number two spot? Wm. Roberts of Spencer Roberts says: “I don’t believe that any man at that point [i.e. in Miami], and especially Governor Reagan, would say no [to a Vice Presidential bid].”

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Dispirited moderates: Says Gov. John Chafee of Rhode Island: “After having had Scranton, Romney and Rockefeller shot out from under me, I’m not picking anyone else.” Hints James Rhodes of Ohio: Rockefeller shouldn’t take the Ohio delegation for granted. Rhodes will take his stand on basis of a poll he’ll take in Ohio in June. . . . Says Gov. Spiro Agnew of Maryland: “His [Rockefeller’s] refusal to become an active candidate is not a good reason to repudiate Richard Nixon,” therefore Agnew has refused to join the stop-Nixon Coalition for a Republican Alternative. . . . Charles Percy, Mark Hatfield, John Lindsay moving up with the press as possible last ditch GOP alternatives to RN, but Percy for one playing coy: Nixon just might offer him the Vice Presidential spot. . . . George Romney reportedly sore at Rockefeller; it was Rocky’s “iffy” statements about his draft ability that helped decide Romney on his bug-out. . . . Switchboard operator Carol McChesney announces she’s available for non-political job: she manned board first in Washington’s Romney for Prexy headquarters, then in short lived Rocky hq. . . . Verdict of Washington Post political columnist David Broder on Rockefeller was: “The plain fact is that in 1968, as in 1960 and 1964, the Eastern, liberal, urban-oriented wing of the Republican Party has lost the nomination struggle—through miscalculation and timidity, lack of skill, lack of discipline and lack of strength.”

A ripple from the West: Last week Reagan supporters launched their Oregon primary campaign with the showing of 30-minute color TV flick of various Reagan appearances and speeches. . . . Robert C. Walker, a San Diego pr-man who worked for Richard Nixon last year, turned up in Miami Beach to head up a Reagan campaign headquarters—five months ahead of the convention. Count them: Reagan now has in his employ 1) Walker, 2) F. Clif White and 3) and 4) the head men of Spencer Roberts. Would Reagan settle for number two spot? Wm. Roberts of Spencer Roberts says: “I don’t believe that any man at that point [i.e. in Miami], and especially Governor Reagan, would say no [to a Vice Presidential bid].”