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Switchblade Issue. Goldwater also turned to a couple of issues that had preoccupied the convention throughout the week. One was the so-called "switchblade issue," first introduced at the convention when Dwight Eisenhower voiced his concern over crime in the cities. It was an issue that obviously touched nerve ends among the delegates. It makes sense as a national issue only if considered in conjunction with the "white backlash." Goldwater seized on it, warning of "the growing menace" to life and property in America's big cities and demanding governmental action...
...equipment, is building four complete studios, and Chet Huntley and David Brinkley will be bolstered by Floor Reporters John Chancellor and Frank McGee. In addition to Pundits Howard K. Smith and Edward P. Morgan, ABC viewers can benefit at least twice a day from the insights of Special Commentators Dwight Eisenhower, Ike's former Press Secretary James Hagerty, and ABC Editor William Lawrence...
...Recalling Dwight D. Eisenhower's pride in his own invention, "modern Republicanism," it seems to me utterly strange that he, being the one person who could decisively influence the Republican Party's development now, chooses to remain silent when the party seems to be marching straight toward the very opposite of modern Republicanism...
...similarities between the 1952 and 1964 contests for the Republican presidential nomination seem striking in many ways. Will history repeat itself? Can William Scranton do this year what Dwight Eisenhower did in '52? The answer, as of last week, was: almost certainly...
...there was Dwight Eisenhower, a late and reluctant entry, the choice of the G.O.P.'s Northeastern kingmakers, of Tom Dewey and Herb Brownell and Cabot Lodge, the man who could take over the presidency of the U.S. for the Republicans, while, as the charge went, "Taft...