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Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin of Baltimore charged tonight that "Barry Goldwater reached a tacit understanding with the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society that he would vote against the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 in exchange for their support...
...McKeldin, at present the only large city Republican mayor in the nation, added that such a deal fitted in neatly with Goldwater's "Southern Strategy" for the 1964 Presidential campaign...
...meeting of the Harvard Young Republican Club, McKeldin said that Vice-Presidential candidate William E. Miller's speech against liberalized immigration quotas clinched his decision to repudiate the Goldwater ticket. He emphasized that President Johnson was the only Democrat he had ever voted for in his life...
...However, McKeldin emphatically opposed the possible exclusion of right wing extremists from the Republican party. "We have to do business with a variety of people", he said. "We just had an intra-party fight in 1964; the Democrats have lots of them...
...McKeldin, who nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower at the 1952 Republican National Convention, surprised his listeners by recalling that he personally supported the late Senator Robert A. Taft. He aided Eisenhower, he said, because he felt Taft's Image as "Mr. Republican" would have proved fatal to the party's chances that year...