If both Nixon and Goldwater don't run in 1964 then who is

Correct, Nixon didn't run, if I said Goldwater didn't run only, maybe a butterfly gets Nixon to run to fill the vacuum.
 
Don't think so. Herblock (the Washington Post cartoonist of the day) had fun portraying him as "Neutral Nixon", since he was viewed as something in the way of damaged goods after losing the gubernatorial race in California in '62. My sense is that PA governor William Scranton might well have come away with the GOP nomination. Since he was approximately middle-of-the-road politically, he probably would have reached out to another centrist as a running mate (my memory of who else might have been prominent in the center of the GOP at the time is failing and I'm too lazy to do any research at the moment).
 
William Scranton.
What about an Scranton/Ford ticket?

Why ford? he wasnt exactly an important figure at the time. Geographically he doesnt help Scranton much, given that they both represent states from roughly the same area.

For some reason, I want to nominate Leveret Staltonstall for VP.
 
Nixon didnt run.

He didn't openly declare his candidacy, but he most certainly had the equivalent of what we'd now call an exploratory committee.

In fact, if Goldwater hadn't made it to the Convention, for whatever reason, then Nixon might have tried getting the Arizonan's base to support himself against Rockefeller.

Anyway, for this TL, it's Rockefeller.

And large sections of the party are as enthusiastic about it as the conservatives were last year when McCain got the nod.
 
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