Word: goldwaterism
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There were, of course, disappointments. While Scranton's cause was helped by the reaffirmation of Ohio's 58-member delegation to vote for a favorite son, Governor James Rhodes, on the first ballot, Scranton's hopes for a breakthrough in the Illinois and Indiana delegations were rebuffed...
At Newark's Essex House, Scranton obviously referred to Goldwater's weakness in the East when he declared: "Republicans in New Jersey and Republicans in Pennsylvania both want to participate in the election of a Republican as the next President of the U.S. Neither of us is prepared...
In Cleveland, Scranton compared Goldwater's conservatism unfavorably to that of Ohio's own late Senator Bob Taft. "Bob Taft was a conservative in the truest sense of the word," Scranton declared. "He sought to conserve all of the human values that have been carried down to us...
Taking It Easy. What was Barry Goldwater doing while Scranton was campaigning? He was lying low. His advisers feel certain that his present delegate lead is so great that his nomination is assured if he can only stay out of political trouble. In other words, silence is Goldwater. Thus he...
But even as the Goldwater strategists coasted on the assumption that Barry had the nomination sewed up, there were indications that other pragmatic politicians viewed a Goldwater candidacy as doomed to defeat in November. One Gallup poll showed that 73% of Republican and Democratic county chairmen believed that Johnson would...