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...Prelude. Ike was not exactly warm toward Goldwater, who in 1960 had labeled the Eisenhower Administration "a dime-store New Deal." Still, he declined to become part of a stop-Goldwater movement. On May 14 Eisenhower told newsmen he would support "whoever is nominated," and the next day he appeared on national television to say that "I personally believe that Goldwater-Senator Goldwater-is not as extreme as some people have made him. But, in any event, we are all Republicans...
...Goldwater could get the nomination. Therefore, why should he help bring on a party split by coming out against Barry? Not until he had pointed out to him a TIME report that Goldwater already had some 550 more or less committed delegates, not including California's 86, was Ike convinced. At that point, he agreed to write a Republican "profile"-without mentioning names-that would detail the kind of G.O.P. candidate Ike really favors. Eisenhower started to draft the statement in his Gettysburg office on May 19, went to New York on May 22 and showed it to Thayer...
...Statement. "I do fervently hope," wrote Ike, "that the person selected to lead our party in the coming campaign will be a man who will uphold, earnestly, with dedication and conviction, the principles and traditions of our party." G.O.P. principles, said Eisenhower, were "spelled out at length" in the party convention platforms of 1956 and 1960. "These platforms," said Ike, "represented the responsible, forward-looking Republicanism I tried to espouse as President, the kind that I am convinced is supported by the overwhelming majority of the Republican Party, the kind I deeply believe the party must continue to offer...
...some of his Administration's domestic accomplishments-establishing the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, extending social security, a new program for medical aid for the aged, urban renewal, the U.S.'s first depressed-areas legislation, as well as the first civil rights bills since Reconstruction. Said Ike: "As the party of Lincoln, we Republicans have a particular obligation to be vigorous in the furtherance of civil rights...
...Reaction. Ike insisted that his "profile" was neutral, but it hit the Goldwater camp like a hurricane. Everything, from backing the United Nations to supporting civil rights and domestic social legislation to the crack about avoiding "impulsiveness" in foreign affairs, struck at least obliquely at Goldwater. Worse, after the 1960 presidential election, Goldwater had scoffed at the same party platform that Ike now praised so highly by saying, "We lost on it." To make sure no one missed the point, Thayer's Tribune planted a column by Pundit Roscoe Drummond squarely alongside the Eisenhower text. Said Drummond...