European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                               the stars and stripes Page 9f. Buckley or. Percy likes Rockefeller and Why not Tut decision of sen. Charles say the Warren commission s Able when the time comes to r Nelson Roe Kefel the time comes to Issue a report. Take a Rockefeller Man but p it the Best qualified Eandi so what happens at first the Date for the presidency Demon Strates the melancholy cynicism n he whole political opera Hon. I do riot mean to suggest that  believes other than that a you see the second wave pundits conclude that the Deci Sion is based on Percy s discovery that Nixon does not intend to Confer upon him the vice presidential nomination. But Don t Lotko Feller is the Best Man. Mere in that Percy has had approximately 10 years to think about the Best Man and that his Deci lion to Home out for Rockefeller now at the last moment immediately sets everyone to thinking not what is it about Rockefeller that makes him the fairest of them All in the eyes of Percy but what s in it for Chuck. It in f As though Percy had been studying the relative qualification of Nixon and Rockefeller holed up in the archives and Only yesterday completed his Reading of the collected works of the two men and the examination finally completed like comes in Riding the Crest of super sophistication Don t you see that if Nixon is nominated he will look for Means by which to unify the Republican party. That Means he will want to give the vice presidency to someone prominently identified As a Rockefeller Man. To which theory one need at this Point Only add the wrinkle a hah Tricky Dick he decided he wanted Percy As vice presi Dent so he persuaded him to come out for Rockefeller know ing that the endorsement would t seriously affect Rocke Feller s chances so As to be it is objected Percy told the news conference that he had had no discussions either with Rocke Feller or Nixon concerning the vice presidency. Alas the asking of the ques Tion is As ritualized As the an swering of it. It is required by liturgical Law that a reporter put the question to the candidate and that the candidate then deny that he has talked Over the Prospect for his advancement. Everyone knows that Only a tech Nical truth is involved because such conversations Are customarily had not Between principals but Between their representatives. I am not of course suggest ing that Nixon s men have been in touch with Percy s men i Haven t the least idea whether that is the Case All the above analysis being suppositions. But it is interesting to speculate that it May very Well have happened. The jockeying for Post positions in the vice presidential race is certainly going on. It is reported that several delegates in okla homa who have been leaning towards Nixon have now declared their preference for Ron Ald Reagan on the grounds that Nixon s Public flirtation with the idea of taking on John Lindsay As vice president was More than Republican blood could Bear. The idea of Lindsay by the Way was apparently launched by gov. James Rhodes of Ohio. He be came furious with the Nixon peo ple for letting it out publicly furious perhaps in the same sense that someone would be furious with friends who let it be known that he had confessed to them that he harboured adulterous appetites for mrs. Jones. Re publicans who fancy Lindsay have every reason to be sheepish. They Are after All re publicans who fancy the demo cratic party. From All of this is it at All Clear who is the likeliest Choice of Nixon i should t think so. Some of his advisers Are warn ing him against taking on As he did in 1960, a magnetic Field too Many problems of control. These same men Are whispering to him  Reagan who is surely the most invigorating Public figure extant has the Dis advantage of being identified As hailing from Nixon s right where As More uncommitted voters Are situated on Nixon s left. But the trouble with that schema in turn is that it makes a Case for diluting Nixon s a peal to the great body of his potential supporters some of whom if they Are Overly disdained will vote for Wallace in protest. C Washington Star Syndicate inc. Huh being kept in dark by lbs very Well we do it your Way we talk Flora Lewis Washington the Paradox of Hubert Humphrey s Campaign is that he is saddled with presi Dent Johnson but Johnson has practically resigned from Humphrey. When the president announced on March 31 that he would t run for reelection everybody assumed Humphrey was his Candi Date. The expectation was that he would hold off any Public endorsement so of not to Hurt Humphrey but would work quietly on the Back stage of politics where his influence could really help. It in t going that Way at All. Humphrey s advisers Are getting bitter about it. One says John son s candidate is Rockefeller. He would be perfectly Content to show the democratic party that after Obj comes the Republican  another trying to stir More friction said Johnson is w Humphrey still but he in t 9 vi"9 any Blank Check. He wants to hold tight on the  the White House is keeping pm control on democratic con mention arrangements and keep "�9 Humphrey in the dark about Johnson s own plans whether 116 will g 0 to he Eon vension whether he will speak at what put to what effect. A platform gut has been made inevitable. " prey wanted to conduct pc orm hearings around the try to be off some of the mulching steam before Chi � by Johnson vetoed a now mos democratic leaders �0�nk food in dread to their what t " the a stances  is he a pure people most in t Johnson s Dis pen � heir dilate. And n c 0olness would help them. Ohnson keeps k w s a la Choli a tha he Haton a re of a liabilitv0 of asset tha he i u of the Way. He cd a. Congressmen and political Lead ers and says the same. Then five minutes later he turns around and tells the press i la give Hubert a plus for the Way he handled the vice presi Dency and a for the Way he s conducting the Campaign so far and he goes on to do just what he wants 1 some Humphrey aides have been urging the up to make an open break now by calling for an immediate end to All bomb ing of North Vietnam. It would certainly infuriate Johnson who can t Bear people claiming that the Vietnam policy is anybody s business but his. C 1968, new Day inc. Wallace is Nixon s real problem George c. Wallace not Nel son a. Rockefeller is the Man who really has the gun at Rich Ard m. Nixon s head. And the Man now making Many Republican savants Burn the Midnight Oil is impartial uninvolved or. George Gallup. When this leading pollster found Wallace s vote at 16 per cent nearly Dou bled since april he pointed out that if you take the Nixon vote and add the Wallace vote classifying most Wallace people As conservative you have a Clear great and growing conservative  Many worried Republican leaders in turn Are concerned by or. Nixon s reported anxious Ness to whittle Down his conservative image. They see his problem As exactly the reverse assuming he wins the Miami nomination. They fear any possible Nixon preoccupation with or. Rockefeller s stance and u mis appraisal of or. Wallace s effectiveness. Although or. Wallace is most certainly not a Model and nothing like that is implied the mishap Paisal would they fear Cost the republicans the election in this tax weary inflation weary crime weary riot weary country. The worried Republican Lead ers find Wallace s current strength hard to gauge and they agree that much depends on the racial climate this summer. But there is admittedly a tremendous amount of restlessness in the country an immense storing up of protest votes and what or. Wallace is saying so bluntly about Law and order the City burnings wasted taxes Vietnam inflation the wrongheaded Ness in washing ton the blundering venality extravagance and favouritism the Cost of living etc., has a Power Ful Appeal. This is the Crux of or. Nixon s problem. For or. Wallace is gain ing More from this discontent than Are the republicans. Or. Gallup also stated there is a so called silent vote that reflects Wallace s unpopularity with publicists and other opinion makers when people say they re the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are n no a tray to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes itself or or the United states undecided but we find that they actually intend to vote for Wal  note the previous Wallace sur Prises. On his last go around he waltzed into the 1964 Wisconsin primary for a few Days and came out with an astounding 260,000 votes. He was expected to get about 50,000. No political commentator in the country could believe it. Wallace exploded a similar Surprise in Indiana. He was expected to get about 15 per cent of the 1964 primary vote in Maryland. He got 45 per cent. A Christian science Monitor Survey finds that today or. Wal lace will damage the Republican candidacy in 35 states with 429 electoral votes 270 required to win compared to hurting the democratic candidacy in Only seven states with 40. In Indiana most leaders i talked with who will be in Miami forecast 300,000 votes for Wal lace. And news accounts in Michigan Tell of a United Auto Mobile workers Union official s astonishment at the number of Auto workers wearing Wallace buttons in the Detroit car plants. Missouri leaders Tell me Wal lace will probably get about 250,000 votes. President Kennedy carried Missouri by less than 10,000. Maryland leaders say Wallace holds As of now around 25 per cent of the estimated november ballots and about 20 per cent throughout the Border states. In Pennsylvania Republican gov. Raymond p. Shafer con ducted a Wallace poll. It showed 14 per cent of the Keystone state vote now going to him about evenly drawn from the two major parties. Or. Rockefeller s pitch for the ethnic blocs the Urban militants the negro militants the militant youth groups and the traditionally democratic Trade Union Phalanx is clearly an off target operation. Although it is mostly a matter of emphasis or. Nixon obviously cannot afford to miss the temper of the country by failing to polarize and energize the pro test voters who Are not really for or. Wallace but identify themselves with him in their own discontent and do not yet feel sufficiently sure that or. Nixon is As completely and thoroughly fed up As they Are. Copyright 1968, by United feature Syndicate inc