Word: goldwaterism
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The only Negro member of the Platform Committee, George A. Parker from the District of Columbia, was not satisfied. He doubted that Gold water could "consistently, conscientiously and in good faith use the powers and prestige" of the presidency to carry out the civil rights law. Goldwater flushed, but held...
By the time he got to San Francisco, Bill Scranton's machine was in full gear. In 48 rooms on three floors of the Mark Hopkins Hotel, scores of eager workers performed their appointed tasks-from drafting speeches to ordering cookie and fruit between-meals snacks for the candidate...
There was, for example, a full afternoon devoted to hearing the representatives of civil rights organizations. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, a Democrat, praised Republicans in Congress for their part in passage of the Civil Rights Act, but, in a plain dig at Goldwater, deplored the doubts about the...
"White-Sneakered Amateurs." But even as the torrent of testimony continued to flow in public, the real shaping and shuffling of the platform planks took place in the nighttime privacy of hotel rooms, where drafting subcommittees worked till dawn. Frustrated by the Goldwater forces' kill-'em-with-kindness...
Last week it appeared that Barry Goldwater might have taken a page or two from Kennedy's book. At any rate, his San Francisco forces were passing around a "working list" of five top vice-presidential prospects-even while insisting that it was highly tentative and that the candidate...