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In a twelve-page editorial, titled "If You Want It Straight," in his own American Opinion magazine, the John Birch Society's founder and presiding genius, Robert Welch, last week managed to blame everyone but himself and his organization for Barry Goldwater's overwhelming electoral defeat.
Welch was willing to credit Goldwater with "plenty of lion-like courage," and to observe that "much of the criticism of the Senator overlooks or the critics fail to understand, the incredible array of hidden forces that were organized against him." Goldwater's disaster came, in part, because of...
From Kenneth Wilson, the Christian Herald's executive editor, the octogenarian and the guests heard a eulogy of affection tempered with humor: "If there's a banner to be waved, he'll wave it. If he doesn't have an opinion, he'll get one...
This was Smylie's way of demanding the ouster of Goldwater Aide Dean Burch as chairman of the Republican National Committee. In his sentiments. Smylie has plenty of Republican company. Thus Illinois' defeated gubernatorial candidate, Charles Percy, in a speech prepared for the National Association of Manufacturers'...
Michael Rossman, a leader of the Campus Free Speech Movement, denied Charges of communist infiltration. "No one has ever offered any proof of this," he claimed. "The FSM includes the entire spectrum of the political groups from Goldwater Republicans to young Democrats. Every time there's any significant student protest...