Shafer emerged as a national figure in the moderate wing of the Republican Party during the 1968 election , giving the nominating speech for New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller at the 1968 Republican National Convention , although the delegates instead chose former Vice President Richard Nixon as the party 's presidential candidate . Shafer himself had received votes in Pennsylvania 's presidential primary and initially received support from a majority of Pennsylvania 's 64-member convention delegation as a favorite son candidate ; he used this leverage in a partially successful attempt to move the Pennsylvania delegation into Rockefeller 's column . After Shafer 's death , his surviving children told '' The New York Times '' that Nixon had offered Shafer the vice presidential spot to balance the ticket with an Eastern moderate , though there is no surviving record to that effect . Nixon ultimately chose Maryland governor Spiro Agnew
1968 Republican National Convention
1968 Republican National Convention
Raymond P. Shafer