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...concerned about national defense, worried about inflation and a balanced budget." But most conservatives, according to Phillips, are Democrats; thus the movement can't work through the Republican Party. "They have to know you're not Watergate and Herbert Hoover," he explains. Hence the new party attempt at the AIP convention...
...candidate on the Illinois ballot. Wilber looks forward to a court ruling on a ballot suit brought by Gene McCarthy and hopes the decision will help them too. Later in the week, a decision is handed down in favor of McCarthy but does not apply directly to the AIP. Nonetheless, Illinois delegates and others have nothing but kind words for the third party efforts of their strange bedfellow, that pied piper...
...session, a short period is allowed for delegates to sound off. (AIP-members pride themselves on being democratic, although many will not use the word because "the Founding Fathers did not.") Michael Jacobs, a delegate from Vermont, objects to the racial overtones of Colonel Warnock's remarks and notes that such overtones will harm the party's efforts to broaden its base. "How many niggers you got in Vermont?" a man shouts out. I peer over at the only black face in the room--that of a young security guard. He remains impassive. A burly, slightly drunk Ohioan goes...
...former Louisiana Congressman John Rarick holds an impromptu press conference. Leaning on one leg and looking very cocky in his white shoes and gray, dry-look pompadour, Rarick, who gained a reputation as one of the most anti-Semitic men in Congress, discusses his hopes to run as an AIP candidate for president and Congress simultaneously in November. A reporter from the Boston Globe raises the possibility that such a move might be illegal. Rarick looks puzzled and says he hasn't considered that. Another question. Busing. Ah yes! A smile. If Catholics and Protestants were to be successfully bused...
Phillips admits failure for the time being. Now is just not the time for this clan. The AIP isn't ready for an assault from the outside. Party Chairman William Shearer likens the AIP to a girl "targeted for a rape that didn't come off." By morning all of them--Phillips, Rusher, Viguerie, Morris--have packed their Brooks Brothers suits and disappeared...