Word: goldwaterism
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Highly organized Goldwater delegates worked feverishly throughout. Under the direction of James Dobbes, Georgetown University senior and a paid representative of the National Youth for Goldwater movement, the partisans of the Arizona senator staged the day's largest floor demonstration.
The Goldwater organizers also tried to use walkie-talkies for their operation on the floor, Rockefeller workers, however, thwarted this tactic by jamming the two-way radios.
Both Goldwater and Rockefeller groups spent more than 400 dollars to drum up support for their respective candidates.
There were cries from each side that the other had tried to "pack" the convention. One Goldwater partisan said yesterday, "There's no question that they [the pro-Rockefeller members of the Harvard Young Republican Club] signed up about 100 people for the fairly specific purpose of the convention."
Rockefeller people charged that James I.K. Knapp, chairman of the credentials committee, abused his position by refusing to accept last minute delegation lists on the deadline night, and by writing letters favoring Goldwater to Connecticut Young Republican clubs.