Word: goldwaterism
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Grasping the Opportunity. Through the week Humphrey carried the burden of infighting and partisanship to which he had been assigned. In Chicago, he accepted an enormous, imitation monkey wrench from the Plumbers Union, promised that he would use it "to put the screws on the Republicans." During a three-city...
"What you do is build a good organization and then wait for a break," explained energetic John Grenier, executive director of the national Goldwater-Miller campaign. "That's what the Kennedys did in 1960, and when their break came - after the" first TV debate - they were ready for it...
"The gun is cocked, and we can handle any political ammunition we get." Every Sunday, in downtown Washington's Cafritz Building, Burch convenes a steering committee that includes Campaign Director Denison Kitchel and such experienced political pros as New York's Len Hall, Ohio's Ray Bliss...
Saints & Sinners. Out where those votes are, local Goldwater organizations generally have far more volunteers to get the job done than the G.O.P. could muster in 1960. Nowhere are these torrid troops used more effectively than in the South, where Republican organizations are now far more efficient than the long...
The Goldwater drive is generally well organized, too, in the Rocky Mountain states, where most regular party officials were pro-Goldwater well before San Francisco. Under red-haired Los Angeles Lawyer Bernard Brennan, Goldwater has a strong organization in California, which turned out 15,000 workers in Los Angeles alone...