jan 1, 1961 - In The Making of the President, 1960,
Theodore White noted that Nixon accepted all
the Rockefeller terms for this meeting,
including provisions "that Nixon telephone
Rockefeller personally with his request for a
meeting; that they meet at the Rockefeller
apartment…that their meeting be secret and
later be announced in a press release from
the Governor, not Nixon; that the meeting be
clearly announced as taking place at the Vice
President's request."
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The Making of the President, 1960 Pg. 197
"The Governor delayed his answer until he had consulted his strategy board in Chicago. The strategy board, having taken its initial act of courage that morning, was now for being firm. Be tough, they urged, Nixon will cave in. And the terms they demanded for the meeting were almost those of surrender: that Nixon telephone Rockefeller personally with his request for a meeting; that they meet at the Rockefeller apartment, not at Brownell's house; that the meeting be secret and later be announced in a press release from the Governor, not Nixon; that the meeting be clearly announced as taking place at the Vice-President's request; that the statement of policy issuing from it be long, detailed, inclusive, not a summary communique. Briefly the Governor questioned the toughness of his advisers, then agreed to outface Nixon. Within an hour and a half Rockefeller was telephoning his strategy board again : Nixon had accepted all their terms and would fly to New York that evening; they were to stand by for action in Chicago that night and begin immediately drafting the terms to which Nixon would be summoned to agree."
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