Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldwater's biggest headache in the Granite State is not Rockefeller, Lodge, Stassen, or writeins for Nixon and Scranton. What hurts is the seemingly frivolous candidacy of an ambitious lady senator with whom he has been playing footsie for months, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine...
...primary is purely strategic. Goldwater cannot attack her with anti-Rockefeller vehemence, since she stands so close to his own camp. Furthermore he has been fending off Rockefeller's challenges throughout the campaign by concentrating largely on President Johnson. Suddenly altering tactics simply to strike out at Margaret Chase Smith would seem both vindictive and unchivalrous. Rockefeller, on the other hands, has not attacked Senator Smith since it is Goldwater votes she is taking...
...Senator Smith's candidacy and Goldwater's resultant misfortune were, it would seems, avoidable. First, he didn't have to play into Senator Smith's hands by bellowing his most distasteful positions up and down New Hampshire. This tactic gave Margaret Chase Smith a chance not only for the moralist vote, but also for the ballots of the less belligerently conservative. The unexpected sincerity of Goldwater's announcement that the Republicans "couldn't get old Barry to change his sopts" may, in fact, have prompted Mrs. Smith's belated candidacy. Had Barry been more soft-spoken--and he certainly could...
Actually, neither Victoria nor Belva Ann expected to win; they were merely highly vocal suffragettes. Not so Maine's trim, white-haired Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Last week Maggie Smith, 66, confessed before the National Women's Press Club in Washington that she has no money, no time to campaign and no organization to speak of. There upon she announced saucily that she is going to run for the G.O.P. presidential nomination just the same...
Stickler. Many people shrug off the lady Senator's declaration as something frivolously feminine. They don't know Maggie. Feminine she is, but not frivolous. Daughter of a barber in Skowhegan, Margaret Madeline Chase never went to college, clerked in a dime store for 100 an hour, worked on a newspaper, taught school, filled in as a night switchboard operator for the phone company. Her husband Clyde, Skow-hegan's first Republican selectman, won 48 straight elections in his lifetime, got elected to Congress in 1936. He died four years later, and Maggie took his place, winning...