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What Gives with Rocky?

There had never been much system to Nelson Rockefeller’s views on foreign policy. In the Roosevelt years, to be sure, he was known to have taken a firm stand against peonage in Latin America. And. later on, under Eisenhower, he was said to have opposed discrimination in foreign aid—as regards both donees and amount. Also, according to a biographer, he was an “idea man”: the “atoms for peace” program, the atom “peace ship,” the “open skies” proposal are some of Madison Avenue’s contributions to the cold war in which Rockefeller is reputed to have had a hand. Still and all, the record hardly added up to a foreign policy. Much less did it warrant a prediction that between August 1 and November 1, 1959, Nelson Rockefeller would be talking more sense on Soviet-American relations than all the other Presidential candidates combined.

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L. Brent Bozell Jr.

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What Gives with Rocky?

There had never been much system to Nelson Rockefeller’s views on foreign policy. In the Roosevelt years, to be sure, he was known to have taken a firm stand against peonage in Latin America. And. later on, under Eisenhower, he was said to have opposed discrimination in foreign aid—as regards both donees and amount. Also, according to a biographer, he was an “idea man”: the “atoms for peace” program, the atom “peace ship,” the “open skies” proposal are some of Madison Avenue’s contributions to the cold war in which Rockefeller is reputed to have had a hand. Still and all, the record hardly added up to a foreign policy. Much less did it warrant a prediction that between August 1 and November 1, 1959, Nelson Rockefeller would be talking more sense on Soviet-American relations than all the other Presidential candidates combined.