Word: gop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barry Morris Goldwater wouldn't say hello, so the young Harvard Law student who wanted to meet the defeated Republican Presidential candidate trailed him around the room. Goldwater chatted with Republican national committeemen, committeewomen and prominent GOP politicians from all over the country; the student listened...
...anti-Goldwater statements, both before the San Francisco convention and after his drubbing in November, received prominent play in newspapers all over the country. Jack Saloma, an assistant professor of political science at MIT and president of the group, has appeared on nation-wide television. And probably most important, GOP politicians throughout the country know what the society is and the more moderate elements, at least, respect...
...liberal Republicans who did little--or too little too late--to stop him. As one Society member observed, the moderates' silence created a vacuum. The voice of liberal Republicanism was muted. Republican newspaper publishers, and even the more Democratic editors, were (and probably still are) genuinely worried about the GOP's future. Anything that could be labled "anti-Goldwater" or "moderate Republicanism" was good copy...
Saloma also criticized the GOP for falling to nominate its most effective leaders. He said the Republicans would have won in 1960 "if Nixon had fought an effective campaign" and that Rocke-feller could have won in 1960 with any type of campaign...
...said that the conservatives were able to take over the GOP because the moderates did not recognize the danger early enough to form their own program. The "ultra-rightists" and segregationists, he explained were able to "bully the rest of the conservatives around...