Speculation On Nixon As Presidential Candidate

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 6

Speculation On Nixon As Presidential Candidate

(New Zealand Press Association)

NEW YORK, Nov. 10. The feraer United State* President, General Ebenhower. said today that if the Republican Party was deadlocked over who shoold be its Presidential candidate in 1964 he thought the former Vice-President, Mr Richard Nixon, “would be one of the likely persons to be examined and approached.” A television interviewer noted that "there is a lot of talk . . . that Mr Nixon may end up with the nomination again next year,” and asked General Eisenhower whether that seemed likely to him. General Eisenhower replied: "Well. I don't know. As far as Mr Nixon is concerned, everything he has said to me is that he has no interest in it.

“Now. if he has changed his mind or even is more receptive, why, all right. But I haven't known about it So I had assumed that he had removed himself completely. “Now, if there should be one of those deadlocks, I would think he would be one of the likely persons to be examined and approached because he is after all a very knowledgeable and a very courageous type of fellow." So far, only the Governor of New York State, Mr Nelson Rockefeller, has declared his intention to run for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, but the leader of the conservative wing, Senator Barry Goldwater, of Arizona, is also expected to declare his candidacy soon. Some observers have predicted that, although Senator Goldwater is at present ahead of Mr Rockefeller in Republican popularity polls, the liberal New York Governor might at least block the Senator’s nomination, even if he could not overtake him. This would leave the way

open for the Republican Party’s nominating convention in San Francisco next July to choose a third figure as the Presidential candidate.