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...deadly internecine struggle within his own party. He frankly admits that the Republicans hit rock bottom and is attacking the problem from two angles. The first--and the motivation of his present college tour--is to try to draw young blood into the veins of the anemic GOP. The November debacle, Scott argues, has made the party of Lincoln the party of opportunity for those who want to make them selves heard in politics. His other tack is total war on the "lunatic fringe" which is desperately trying to salvage the vestiges of its power within the party...
Since Von Salzen's election, the club has been bitterly split by factional bickering which came to a head last fall in a long fight over whether or not to endorse GOP presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. The club finally voted to endorse...
Ragsdale reported he has also received "favorable replies" from former Vice-President Nixon and former GOP national committee chairman Dean Burch...
Ripon's immediate formula for a GOP revival, embodied in 13 recommendations at the end of the report, revealed few surprises. Perhaps the most novel suggestion--and the one least likely to reach fruition--asked the Republican National Committee to "extend a formal apology to Dr. Martin Luther King for efforts attributed to one of its employees to induce King voters to waste their votes by writing in Dr. King's name...
...that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans ...' Today that torch burns only at an Arlington grave, for today no man and no Party carries the torch of our general." This is the Ripon vision--"the great opportunity of a new Republican party"--that the GOP will pick up the torch...