Rockefeller-Stratton?

Heading eastward on a business trip, Illinois' Republican Governor William G. Stratton decided to add another stop to his itinerary under the heading of special business. Stratton phoned New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, an old friend from service in the 80th Congress, asked Javits to arrange a quiet meeting in his Manhattan apartment. There Illinois' Stratton, who would like to be Vice President of the U.S., chatted secretly for two hours with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who made a special trip down from Albany to see him.

Back home last week, Stratton told about the meeting. They had talked about 1960, but kept the conversation to issues rather than personalities. They had agreed that, because the G.O.P. is weak in Congress, it is up to big-state Republican Governors (like themselves) to write most of the party's record. Said Stratton of New Friend Rockefeller: "I found what I like to see. He's very progressive. I consider myself a progressive."

In another careful choice of terms last week, Vice President Nixon called for conservatism without "stand-pattism." Said Nixon to a Los Angeles Republican luncheon: "I don't think we could make a greater mistake than to say that because some people don't like being called conservative the Republican Party should stop being conservative. We should be proud of what we believe."

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