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...Nixon men were compelled to mount a defense operation among the Southern delegations. Reagan had been making inroads in Alabama, North Carolina and Texas particularly, and this trend could not be allowed to go on unchecked. Barry Goldwater, Senator John Tower of Texas and Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina???three of the most conservative men in the party?counterattacked on Nixon's behalf. Goldwater chatted with Southerners in his hotel suite. Thurmond and Tower took some waverers for boat rides. Their message was basic and concise. The real contest was between Nixon and Rockefeller; every defection to Reagan would...
Shrewd Franklin Roosevelt never let his Bonus marchers get the Washington spotlight. Quick as querulous, down-at-heel veterans began shuffling into Washington, he began shipping them off to special relief camps in the South. In eleven such camps last week?seven in Florida, four in South Carolina???some 2,500 derelicts were being housed, fed, paid $30 to $45 per month...
Entering into the spirit of the jest, the Democratic National Committee rushed around to tell five conservative Democratic Senators?Glass and Byrd of Virginia, Tydings of Maryland, Gore of Oklahoma, Bailey of North Carolina???that they were accused of being in league with the League, an accusation which no one had made. Promptly all five issued ringing denials which were so much good grist for the Democratic Committee mill...
...which all high tenors in glee clubs, bathrooms and social club quartets imagine to be theirs. When singing he stands still, raises his arms rarely in his single gesture, lifts his round face to the ceiling so that it looks not unlike that Moon?Wabash, June or Carolina???which shines in the sky like a yellow coin for all ambitious troubadours...
...acrimonious dispute. The Field Marshal, red in the face, waved his arms and cried: "The Senator from Utah knows nothing about beans!" Glaring down scornfully upon his opponent across the aisle, the Generalissimo snarled back: "Beans! Beans! We grow better beans in Utah than they do in North Carolina???or anywhere else in the world...