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    "ocrText": "October 9, 1968\nThe Honorable Nelson Rockefeller,\nGovernor of New York,\n22 West 55th Street,\nNew York, N. Y. 10019\nDear Governor Rockefeller:\nThank you for the reply of your secretary, Ann C. Whitman, to my\nletters and enclosure, \"Assassinations of the Industrial State\".\nI trust I have now achieved a fully confidential channel to com\nmunicate with you, even though as I fully realize, the C oncept of\nan organized political conspiracy for the assinations of John F.\nKennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy is yet too\nincredible for belief. I refused to entertain such a possibility\nuntil the third assassination with a common modus operandi forced\nme to undertake the penetrating study referred to above.\nI wish to provide you in this letter a very confidential analysis\nof political probabilities one month before the national elections.\nYou will then be in position to judge from future events the\nsagacity, or lack of it, of my recommendations for your actions\nto prepare to achieve the Presidency on January 20, 1969 if the\nfollowing possibility projections for the elections on November\n5th prove out. Since my projection of the Cuban missiles crisis\ntwo years and eight months before the fact proved out, I feel it\nis my duty to project even a possibility if the exploitation of\nthe opportunity is capable of changing my country's prospects of\ndomination by the puilitary-industrial-complex for yet another\npresidential term.\nI respect your decision to support the Republican ticket at all\nlevels including that of the Presidency and Vice Presidency. The\nlimitation of your support to only a minority of Republican voters\nas of the Republican convention dictates that course of action.\nHowever, let me point out that your obligation under party discip-\nline ceases the moment the election returns indicate that no single\npresidential nominee has secured a majority of the electoral votes.\nYour obligation then will be to your country and to the majority of\nthe total electorate that will demand a continuation of the new\npolitics revolution begun by John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King\nand Robert F. Kennedy. Your own new politics philosophy is closer\nto theirs than to that of Nixon-Agnew. Between now and November\n5th you may desire to establish your image as an acceptable\nRepublican-Democratie coalition nominee of the Electoral College\nor of the House of Representatives.\nBefore I explain this, permit me to up-date my probability projec-\ntions of June 6th and thereafter as a result of the assassination\nof Robert F. Kennedy. I then projected that the vote for George\nWallace would be 20% to 25% of the popular vote. Since polls then\nindicated only 8%, this projection was right on the nose. Current\npolls indicate\nas high as 21% of the total national vote with a"
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