Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin with, Goldwater supporters throughout the country are not likely to step aside meekly for moderate leadership. Republican leaders who voted for Goldwater in San Francisco will retain power in local organizations. For the Arizona Senator, however, this fact will be of little comfort. Politicians disagree on many things, but on the need for victory they all concur. Barry Goldwater led the GOP to one of the worst defeats any American party has suffered in modern times. Republicans lost 39 seats in the House and 27 of 35 races for the Senate. On the state level, the party lost control...
...Chairman, Dean Burch. If he can be forced to resign (technically he cannot be voted out of office), moderation will have won a symbolic victory. Regardless of what happens to Burch, however, Goldwater is finished as a powerful figure in the party. He doesn't have the ability to retain power behind the scenes, and he is too much of a liability to display publicly...
...Kennedy in the National Convention. But the Secretary has just completed an excellent year; a clutch of conservation legislation has been passed. Furthermore Lady Bird likes Udall because he did such a good job planning and promoting her campaign forays into the wilderness. As a result, Johnson will retain the Secretary with some reluctance...
...retain his post, Buzcko like every other elected official needs to build his own organization, since he can expect little help from the Democratic party (completely indistinguishable from the personal organization of Senator Kennedy, the leading Democrat). Curiously enough, the least of his worries are the Republicans, who have nominated Elywnn Miller, someone even more unknown than Buzcko himself...
...state's fiscal future is bleak if present economic policies are continued, a comprehensive survey by Boston College economists has demonstrated. Simply to retain present industry, Massachusetts must cut property taxes, the chief source of state revenue, by at least $3 million in the next decade. Yet, to finance projected state-wide educational and welfare needs, the government must gather at least $150 million in new revenue. If these funds are not found, the General Fund deficit will increase and the cities and towns, many already operating on dangerously unbalanced budgets, will near bankruptcy...