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...Small Cabal. The Ripon Society, founded in Cambridge, Mass., on December 12, 1962, is named after the Wisconsin city where the Republican Party was founded to oppose the spread of slavery.* The society's president is John Saloma III, 30, an assistant professor of political science at M.I.T., who, along with Harvard Law Student Thomas Petri, 24, headed the group that put the report into final form...
...ticket the most harm." Goldwater "read his speeches stoically and unenthusiastically. His rhetoric confused the debate and left him terribly vulnerable to charges of name-calling, smearing and carelessness." Moreover, says the report, the "Goldwater leadership clique" exercised "an oppressive exclusiveness that put loyalty to a small cabal ahead of loyalty to the Republican Party...
...Ripon statement criticized the "insensitivity" of the Goldwater national organization to local problems, frequent "questionable tactics" employed during the campaign, and the "oppressive exclusiveness (of the Goldwater leadership) which put loyalty to a small cabal ahead of loyalty to the Republican party...
...died in early 1962 instead of early 1963, the Medicare bill would have passed the Senate in the summer of 1962. Northern liberals would require some time to develop the skills that others are well accustomed to wielding. Senator Russell Long (D-La.) reportedly explained to the little cabal of liberals filibustering against the communications satellite bill the same summer that he came "to help the Yankee boys out 'cause they wouldn't even know how to start without some outside help...
Satisfaction with the fall of the Ngo family cabal in South Vietnam must not distract the United States government from the full policy reappraisal which the coup both permits and requires...