Word: goldwaterism
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A little over two years after a small group of Republicans met secretly in a downtown Chicago motel to launch the Draft-Goldwater movement, the Republican National Committee met in Chicago to complete the final formalities of dropping Goldwater. A few die-hard right-wingers tried to delay the foreordained...
Something to Do. Goldwater's acceptance of Bliss did not come easily. Less than a week before, in his Washington apartment, Barry had listened in angry disbelief as two of his most loyal supporters, Running Mate William Miller and Nebraska's National Committeeman Donald Ross, along with Ray...
In 1960 Bliss delivered the state to Richard Nixon over John Kennedy-much to the surprise of Kennedy's expert pollsters. And even in the shambles of Barry Goldwater's 1964 defeat, Bliss's Republicans kept control of both houses of the legislature and came out with...
Big Enough. "I've been a desk chairman," says Bliss. "I don't profess to be an orator. I've always felt it my duty to build up the candidates, not Ray Bliss." The national build-up job that he faces now is monumental. The Republicans'...
Says Pragmatist Bliss: "If the Democratic Party is big enough for Harry Byrd and Hubert Humphrey, then the Republican Party is big enough for Jack Javits and Barry Goldwater." Which does not alter the fact that, for all of Bliss's avoidance of ideology, the party will need ideas...