Word: ev
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...delegation to vote for a favorite son, Governor James Rhodes, on the first ballot, Scranton's hopes for a breakthrough in the Illinois and Indiana delegations were rebuffed. Early in the week, Scranton stopped by the Capitol Hill office of Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, pointedly suggested that Ev would make a "great favorite son." But Dirksen was having no part of such a holding action. He was convinced that Goldwater had a strangle hold on the Illinois delegation, and, he said later, Scranton's suggestion "just sort of flopped onto my desk and stayed there." That same...
...Clearly Ev feels that the time for Goldwater is now and he would strengthen his own position within the party by supporting him. Moreover, his political philosophy isn't always so radically different from Goldwater's. Besides, Goldwater will do the most for the Republican party in the fall elections. One could not of course expect Ev Dirksen to stop playing politics. But his hypocrisy in boosting Goldwater after earning plaudits over civil rights is monumental...
...once, Ev Dirksen was speechless. Leaving the first powwow of Illinois' Republican Convention delegates in suburban Chicago last week, he plowed head down through a crowd of newsmen, got into a car and drove off without saying a word...
What so visibly upset Ev was a crude power play, aimed at G.O.P. Gubernatorial Nominee Chuck Percy, by Goldwater forces at the meeting. During his successful primary campaign, Percy pledged himself to vote in San Francisco for the presidential candidate favored by a majority of the Illinois delegation. As of now, Goldwater holds that majority, and Percy has every intention of keeping his word. But he is suspect to the Goldwaterites because of his well-known belief that putting the Arizona Senator at the top of the ticket would seriously hurt the chances of all Illinois Republican state candidates, including...
...sake of party harmony, Percy urged Ev against this course. "I can't afford to fight these Goldwater people," he said. Percy therefore withdrew as prospective cochairman, a Goldwater-leaner was named vice chairman, Dirksen left town mad, and Illinois Republicans were treated to the sight of their gubernatorial nominee, chosen overwhelmingly in a statewide primary, being reduced io the status of just another common delegate at the national convention...