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Singles Out Bliss...
...chosen to be his administrative assistants and political advisors," says Shaddeg of the former Senator, "suggests that Goldwater always sought people personally loyal to him and willing to serve him without question or contradiction." Thus, Dean Burch was selected as GOP national chairman because Goldwater felt Ray Bliss-the man who has since replaced Burch-"could not be trusted...
...work as a hired hand on the farm of Major Addison McPheeters, a Scots settler who won his spurs in the Black Hawk War. Before long, Charles Shuman married the major's daughter Mary and took over the farm. They had three children, one of whom was Bliss, Charlie Shuman's father...
...rebel against. Perhaps for this reason, perhaps because Jane Addams was not the daughter of an overbearing Breueresque daddy, the Freudian discovery of the inner self did not breed a characteristically European pessimism when it reached these shores, but instead sparked the effort to recover a lost state of bliss, a pre-adolescent Eden that had never felt the dead hand of patriarchal restraint. What developed instead of a sense of cosmic fatalism (and its consequent strain of apocalyptic rebellion, one supposes) was an exaggerated respect for social manipulation, a penchant for forcing youth and growth into accepted social channels...
...Symptomatic. Not so, claimed Kelly, by now back in Cincinnati. He had himself told Bliss of the raid, and Bliss had "professed satisfaction with my work." But "when the adverse publicity started to flow, the chairman weakened in his support of me, and it was apparent that I was to be sacrificed." Added Kelly: "I must confess that my short stay in politics in Washington has proved that a position with the Republican National Committee is more dangerous than that encountered in my time as a liaison pilot in World...