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...preliminaries were almost over. At Hershey, Pa., the Republican Party, after months of internecine strife, went a long way toward binding up its wounds. The Democrats are about to launch their campaign with next week's national convention in Atlantic City. The machinery of the great quadrennial U.S. exercise in politics was oiled up and ready to move toward Election Day, Nov. 3 (see following stories...
...their Hershey meeting, the Republicans merely papered over some of their internal fissures, but enough were fully healed to permit Dwight Eisenhower to dismiss "any uncertainties I may have felt as to the fitness, adequacy and quality" of Barry Goldwater as a candidate for President. Said Ike: "I am right on his team." As the Democrats prepared to nominate Lyndon Johnson by acclamation, the only question for them was the choice of a candidate for Vice President, and it was still a question. As of last week, the President had not yet made up his mind, although on public form...
...Richard Nixon, explained that perhaps what he should have said about extremism was that "wholehearted devotion to liberty is unassailable and that halfhearted devotion to justice is indefensible." Then, carrying out a plan conceived even before the convention, he skillfully handled a remarkable summit conference of G.O.P. leaders in Hershey...
...last week, Goldwater went to Hershey armed with a carefully honed speech. It was drafted largely by former Eisenhower Advisers Bryce Harlow and Ed McCabe in consultation with Goldwater and Ike; it was a fascinating document, in both tone and content (see box). "This speech," observed a close Goldwater associate, "is what he should have said at San Francisco...
...hear Barry out and to discuss all of the obstacles to party unity, the leaders met for two hours and 45 minutes at the Hershey Hotel. Present were Goldwater, Vice-Presidential Candidate William Miller, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, 14 Republican Governors and 14 G.O.P. gubernatorial candidates. The positions they took there, in private, laid the basis for their later pronouncements of unity. High points behind the closed doors...