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The New Republic’s columnist, “TRB”, has never been a patient man. But what is one to say of his August 17 dispatch, in which he characterizes the Republican platform as one that “Lincoln or Hitler could both have run on”—and discards Agnew as merely “a man who dislikes Negroes”? One is to say, patiently, that the poor fellow has been working too hard, and needs a nice long rest.

The decision of New York’s Conservative Party to field electors pledged to Richard Nixon has got Nixon’s support. But if he persuades New York Republicans to allow the Conservatives to share their electors, he incurs the wrath of Rockefeller and Javits. If he cuddles up to R&J, he loses a large bloc of votes. The dilemma, equating as it does the big liberal guns with the Conservatives, is a major tribute to that growing party. In the gubernatorial election in 1966, the Conservatives polled 510,000 votes with an almost unknown candidate. Their Senate candidate this time around, James L. Buckley, may get a million or more. New York has 43 of the nation’s 583 electoral votes, the loss of which could easily mean the game. Nixon is going to have to make somebody cross.

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The New Republic’s columnist, “TRB”, has never been a patient man. But what is one to say of his August 17 dispatch, in which he characterizes the Republican platform as one that “Lincoln or Hitler could both have run on”—and discards Agnew as merely “a man who dislikes Negroes”? One is to say, patiently, that the poor fellow has been working too hard, and needs a nice long rest.

The decision of New York’s Conservative Party to field electors pledged to Richard Nixon has got Nixon’s support. But if he persuades New York Republicans to allow the Conservatives to share their electors, he incurs the wrath of Rockefeller and Javits. If he cuddles up to R&J, he loses a large bloc of votes. The dilemma, equating as it does the big liberal guns with the Conservatives, is a major tribute to that growing party. In the gubernatorial election in 1966, the Conservatives polled 510,000 votes with an almost unknown candidate. Their Senate candidate this time around, James L. Buckley, may get a million or more. New York has 43 of the nation’s 583 electoral votes, the loss of which could easily mean the game. Nixon is going to have to make somebody cross.