Rockefeller Declines To Second Nixon

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29260, 19 July 1960, Page 15

Rockefeller Declines To Second Nixon

NEW YORK, July 18. The Republican Governor of New York, Mr Nelson Rockefeller, said yesterday that he had declined an unofficial request to second the nomination of the Vice-President, Mr Richard Nixon, as the Republican Party’s Presidential candidate.

He said at a press conference that he would be available for a genuine draft for the Presidential nomination himself. The Republican Party will hold its national convention to choose a candidate in Chicago next week. Mr Rockefeller said that a person whom he declined to identify had made the request. He said he considered the request unofficial. He said he had declined it because. as he had said earlier, he would take no official part in the convention activities. He said he would not accept the Vice-Presidential nomination even if it were offered personallv by President Eisenhower. Mr Rockefeller has previously said he did not want this position as he felt he could more for the people of New York as Governor than he could do as VicePresident President Eisenhower has laid down conditions for supplying confidential national security information to Senator John Kennedy, Democratic Presidential candidate, during the coming campaign. A Presidential spokes-

man said Senator Kennedy had accepted the terms. Mr' Eisenhower had let it be known that Senator Kennedy would ’ have to accept the secret data in person—and not have it passed on to him through gobetweens, as the Massachusetts Senator had implied was his plan, the American Associated Press said.

In Hyannisport, Massachusetts. Senator Kennedy settled down today to a relaxed vacation with his wife and family in a seaside setting remote from the stresses and strains of last week’s convention and the election campaign. He arrived at the picturesque report of Hyannisport last night to a rousing welcome from airport and street crowds which police said totalled up to 100.000. The reception strained at the narrow confines of an area with a regular population of 16.000 and summer population of 60.000. It took place about an hour after an ovation by thousands of admirers at Boston’s Loean International Airport when Senator Kennedy arrived by jet transport from Los Angeles.