Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However much the convention antics and dramatics on the Cow Palace floor seemed to be spun out by pro-Goldwater rote, one thing worth watching was the Republican moderates' death battle on the platform issues. Unfortunately, the climax came too late for much of the Eastern U.S. to follow it on television...
...jeers continued, but Goldwater managers were alarmed about the exhibition. In an inconspicuous trailer parked behind the Cow Palace, F. Clifton White, a Goldwater lieutenant, picked up a microphone and barked: "All call! All call!" The message went over the lines to 30 phones on the convention floor. "If there is any booing in your delegations, stop it immediately," ordered White. Within three minutes Goldwater's legions pinpointed the main source of the catcalls in the galleries, scurried up the steps and asked offenders to give Rocky a break. They never really...
...Cow Palace was no place for Republican moderation. The amendments on extremism and nuclear weapons control lost by huge head counts, with shoulder-to-shoulder phalanxes of Goldwater people rising to vote no. And when the long-and relatively listless-debate on civil rights ended, Morton polled each delegation, got a stunning show of Barry's strength: the amendment was beaten 897 to 409. When the delegates trudged out after eight hours, it was 3:30 on the East Coast-and the Goldwaterites' late late show of power had been missed by millions...
...pique did not nearly explain the emotional scene in the Cow Palace. That scene's significance lay in the far-reaching fact that in many areas of the U.S. a latent suspicion that the press is sometimes unfair has hardened into a belief that, especially in matters of politics, it is partisan and untrustworthy. To almost all Goldwater's admirers, the press represents the "Eastern establishment" that is out to get Barry. They think primarily of press, radio and television and its influential New York-Washington base; newsmen are viewed as liberals who distort Goldwater's views...
...dislike and suspicion of the press that was displayed in the Cow Palace is by no means entirely unjustified. Segments of the press have sometimes sounded as extremist as any Goldwater extremist. Thus Drew Pearson began a column last week with the observation: "The smell of fascism has been in the air at this convention." Joe Alsop, who opined last March that "no serious Republican politician, even of the most Neanderthal type, any longer takes Goldwater seriously," now declared it a "fact" that "many Goldwater enthusiasts are genuine fanatics, like the majority of his delegates...