Speculation On Nixon’s Running Mate Grows

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29264, 23 July 1960, Page 13

Speculation On Nixon’s Running Mate Grows

CHICAGO, July 22.

Vice-President Richard Nixon was generally conceded today to have the Republican Party nomination tied up as tightly as any man in American history making his first bid for the Presidency, but his choice of running mate kept speculation alive.

To add a little spice a new name cropped up for Vice-Presi-dent—Mr Dwight D. Eisenhower. But the talk mainly was whether New York’s Governor, Mr Nelson Rockefeller, could yet be per-

suaded to take second place to Mr Nixon on the Republican "ticket.” Mr Rockefeller has insisted that he is not interested in the VicePresidency, but would not turn down a "draft" as Presidential candidate at next week's party convention. Republicans agree that a NixonRockefeller "ticket” would be their strongest answer to the John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. , Three other men continue to figure in the hectic speculation. They are the national party chairman, Senator Thruston Morton, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Secretary of the Interior, Mr Fred Seaton. The suggestion of Mr Eisenhower for Vice-President came

from a Republican member of the House of Representatives, Mr James Fulton. He said he would nominate the present President

for the Vice-Presidency because “we must not let Khrushchev dictate American politics. “We must face him with a man who has held the Presidency during Mr K’s arrival, plus Mr

Nixon, who knows how to deal with Mr K. and has demonstrated it,” he said. Mr Fulton said he had not consulted Mr Eisenhower. Senator Morton disclosed yesterday that both Mr Nixon and Governor Rockefeller were being consulted on the party’s platform, the drafting of which will start in secret today. This, he said, was being done in the hopes of producing a document on which both could run—while Mr Robert Finch. Mr Nixon’s administrative assistant, added that his chief had done nothing to write off the Governor as a possible Vice-Presidential nominee. The platform sub-committees finished taking evidence from special interest groups yesterday. , Etna Still Active.—Mount Etna

continued to send up clouds of dark volcanic ash today in a new series of explosions.—Latania, July 21.