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Attacking both the ideology and the political "ineptitude" of the Goldwater campaign, the Ripon Society yesterday called upon the GOP presidential nominee and his lieutenants to step down from the party leadership.
At a press conference in Washington, Ripon's president, John S. Saloma, assistant professor of political science at M.I.T., outlined the Society's views and issued a nine page detailed attack of the Goldwater campaign. A part of the press conference was shown on the Huntley-Brinkley news program.
The Ripon attack came amidst an increasingly loud chorus of both private and public criticism of Goldwater by GOP leaders. Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York was asked in Madrid, where he just arrived for a short vacation, whether he thought Goldwater should continue as the head of the...
The Ripon statement, although noting that Republicans "have no common ground" with the "strange ultra-conservatism" of the Goldwater camp concentrated the brunt of its attack on the general conduct of the Senator's campaign.
Further on in the statement, it claimed that "In suburbia, the Goldwater-Miller campaign was a disaster. The Southern strategy wiped out the substantial gains made by Eisenhower and Nixon in the Southern suburbs. And in the North, the radical appeal of the national ticket was overwhelmingly rejected."