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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26087549, member: 101855&quot;]Yes, Nelson had the presidency in mind after he was elected Governor of New York in 1958. Those were the days. The guy he unseated was Averal Harriman who was as much of or more of blue blood than Rockefeller.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nelson fought for the presidency for a little while in 1960, but finally bowed to Nixon.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1964, he fought hard against Goldwater, but by the then the Republican Party are turned far to his right. I remember staying up late with my mother during the 1964 Republican Convention when Rockefeller addressed the gathering. At one point he told the delegates, who was mosly Goldwater supporters, that the party had moved to positions that were alien to the core party values. That drew a huge chorus of boos. I had never seen a national figure hooted down like that before. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rockerfeller finished his speech. He was lucky the delegates didn&#039;t have rotten eggs and tomatoes because he would have been covered with them. </p><p><br /></p><p>By the time Rockefeller gave that salute to a heckler, around 1970, he had no hope of ever getting the Republican nomination or being elected president. Ford gave him his best chance in 1974 when he appointed Rockefeller to be his vice president.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a group of buttons from the 1960 campaign with a Rockefeller button in the upper right.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1662468[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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