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...Ike himself appeared taken aback by the stir. When a reporter said, "My editor wants to know if Senator Barry Goldwater fits your specifications," he replied enigmatically, "Let your editor try to fit that shoe to that foot...
...Goldwater, he tried to make the best of Ike's statement. Said he: "I hail its forthright restatement of the basic Republican principles upon which I proudly stand and its public rebuke to those who would rule or ruin." But Barry knew better. The same day Ike's message was published, he appeared before a Redding, Calif., audience with an arrow tucked under his arm so that, in profile, it appeared to have pierced his back. Said Barry sadly, "This is just to show you some of the problems I've had in the last few days...
Indeed, as things were going, Barry never really could get his foot out of his mouth long enough to try on Ike's shoe. Early last week he raised a new crop of scary headlines by implying his support of the idea that Viet Cong supply lines in North Viet Nam could be uncovered through "defoliation of the forests by low-yield atomic weapons." Barry had to make it clear later that what he really meant was that "it could be done, but I don't think it should be done." When asked why he thought Eisenhower...
...other hand, Nelson Rockefeller happily recalled that he had helped draft the very 1960 G.O.P. platform that Ike liked so much. Cried Rockefeller: "I fall within the framework of Eisenhower's description. I don't think Senator Goldwater's views are compatible." Workers for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., having thrown their support to Rocky in the California primary, quickly chimed in that Lodge, too, fitted Ike's qualifications...
...that primary, there was no telling about the contribution Ike had made to the outcome. But one thing was certain: in the long-range G.O.P. situation, the last Republican President of the U.S. had, intentionally or not, thrown his considerable weight against Goldwater...