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...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...
...rostrum, Eisenhower seemed astonished at the reaction to his statement. When he could be heard, he added, "because, my friends, I assure you that these are people who couldn't care less about the good of our party." The crowd roared anew. Ike later explained that he had penciled the remark into his speech almost as an afterthought to express his "resentment" at journalists who "write think pieces and ascribe motives to others when they don't know what they are talking about." Ike was irritated weeks ago by a New York Herald Tribune column by Roscoe Drummond...
...Ike's pique did not nearly explain the emotional scene in the Cow Palace. That scene's significance lay in the far-reaching fact that in many areas of the U.S. a latent suspicion that the press is sometimes unfair has hardened into a belief that, especially in matters of politics, it is partisan and untrustworthy. To almost all Goldwater's admirers, the press represents the "Eastern establishment" that is out to get Barry. They think primarily of press, radio and television and its influential New York-Washington base; newsmen are viewed as liberals who distort Goldwater...
...York Times, Goldwater's nomination was "a disaster for the Republican Party, and a blow to the prestige and to the domestic and international interests of the United States." To the liberal New York Post, the adoption of a Goldwater-oriented platform and Ike's "retreat" meant that "the Birchers and racists have never before enjoyed so big a night under such respectable auspices...
...Ike should never have accepted. He was too much a figure in the convention-at least a potential one-to be a paid hand of a TV network. ABC got little for its $50,000, as Ike put in his duty time saying nothing and saying it gently, in conversation with his exPress Secretary James Hagerty, who is now an ABC vice president...