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Proposal to Name Javits As Republican Candidate for Vice President

Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York Republican, was proposed by another prominent Republican Senator here yesterday for “serious consideration” as the Republican candidate for the United States Vice Presidency on a ticket to be headed by Vice President Richard M. Nixon. The proposal was made by Senator John Sherman Cooper, of Kentucky. Mr. Javits should […]

May 23, 1960
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Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York Republican, was proposed by another prominent Republican Senator here yesterday for “serious consideration” as the Republican candidate for the United States Vice Presidency on a ticket to be headed by Vice President Richard M. Nixon. The proposal was made by Senator John Sherman Cooper, of Kentucky.

Mr. Javits should be nominated, said the Kentucky Republican, if Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller refuses the Vice Presidential nomination and if Sen. John F. Kennedy is nominated for President by the Democrats. If that were to be the line-up of Presidential candidates, Mr. Cooper maintained, Sen. Javits could “bring New York into the Republican column.”

Republican observers here pointed out that “a chief function any Vice Presidential candidate is to capture the electoral votes of his own state.” Sen. Cooper noted that Mr. Javits showed from the time he first ran for Congress from New York in 1946, he proved he was capable of defeating prominent Democratic opponents. In 1956 Mr. Javits was nominated for the Senate after a bitter battle with Republican conservatives, and beat New York’s Mayor Robert F. Wagner by 458,000 votes.

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