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...Getting plenty of campaign help from the idol of Arizona conservatives, Senator Barry Goldwater, the state's cautious Republican Governor Paul Fannin overwhelmed energetic Phoenix Real Estate Millionaire Lee Ackerman to win his second term...
Arizona. The state's powerful legislature seldom allows any Governor to run up an impressive record, but the score card of Paul Fannin looks surprisingly good. Conservative Republican Fannin, a gas distributor from Phoenix, had never run for office when he was elected Governor two years ago, but since then he has acted like a political veteran. He pushed through a much needed sales tax earmarked for educational funds, revived a Good Neighbor policy toward the Mexican state of Sonora. His pet highway-safety program ranks among the nation's best...
Arizona. Go-Getter Democrat Lee Ackerman, 39, a Missouri-born real estate millionaire, is running a well-organized middle-of-the-road campaign against Republican Incumbent Paul Fannin, 53, wealthy Phoenix gas distributor. Zesty Democrat Ackerman could win unless Nixon carries Arizona by enough of a landslide to bring his ticket along with...
Nonetheless he did nothing to discourage Arizona's Governor Paul Fannin from nominating Barry Goldwater for the presidency. The hall thundered with a Goldwater demonstration. Youngsters carrying standards bearing his picture marched down the aisles; a brass band of Arizona Indians trooped along behind them. In the family box, Margaret Goldwater and her daughter Peggy wept...
Goldwater withdrew his name from the convention as soon as Arizona Governor Paul Fannin had nominated him. "We are conservatives." Goldwater told the delegates. "The Republican Party is our historic home." He called the Democratic platform a "blueprint for socialism" and its supporters "those who by their every words have lost faith in America...