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Within the next two years, Republican
liberals, deeply pained by
the Vice President, and not wanting
to make him Mr. Nixon's successor,
will very likely try to find another
candidate. And even more likely,
the party rank and file will effectively
block a move to remove a
man who is at least as popular
within the GOP as Mr. Nixon was.

As President Eisenhower's second
term drew to a close party
liberals, in the person of Governor
Nelson Rockefeller, tried vainly to
stop what many thought was inevitable.
-Richard Nixon's Presidential
nomination.

But instead, President Kennedy
defeated the "heir apparent" and
later confessed. "Nelson would
have creamed me."

As President Nixon's second
term ends, party liberals will probably
engage in an even more futile
exercise. Perhaps in the person of
Senator Charles Percy they will try
in vain to persuade their party that
Mr. Agnew cannot win and murmur
to themselves that he should not).

But instead, President elect Edward
Kennedy may admit: "Chuck
would have beat me."