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This may seem quite petty for such low stakes as the presidency of a college political club. But the YR elections have always been its biggest event...
Charles Scott '67, vice-president of the club last year and now a first year student at the Business School, thinks that the Machine is defunct today. He said, "It never recovered from Eric Van Salzen...
...Salzen came to the presidency of the club in 1964, a bad year for Republicans. Goldwater is only partially to blame for the decline in the HYRC which began that year. The Republican Party may have recovered from the debacle of '64, but the club...
...Salzen beat the Machine candidate in the '64 club election. The Machine had been effective from the spring of 1962 to the spring of 1964, and the club's membership had climbed to almost 400 from approximately 150 five years before. The Young Democrats, at Democratic Harvard, had a membership of 100 less. A trip to Washington in 1963 received national publicity and brought more speakers to the club than ever before. According to Scott, "The Machine set the line, and things got done...
...though, David McNichol won the presidency of the club back for the Machine. He did it, however, with the help of unknowns whom Scott said had been "not entirely welcome." James W. Vaupel '67, who succeeded McNichol, was one of these. Vaupel's own successor, Stephens, labelled a Machine man by the opposing ticket at last year's election, began his Harvard Republican career as an anti-Machine candidate. Traditionally, YR's stayed with the same faction all the way. The chain had been broken...