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...recent cocktail party in Chicago after the Republican National Committee had worked out a compromise between the party's factions. If Barry had said hello to the Harvard Law student, the two probably would exchange no more than a few cool words. For the young man belonged to the Ripon Society, and you can count on one finger the number of nice things the Society has had to say about the Arizona conservative. But perhaps the young man should have been more persistent. He really should have tried to thank Barry. For Barry's bungling campaign and his misinter-pretation...
Only a week before the National Convention opened, a small group--some of whom were on their way to San Francisco to work for Scranton and Rockefeller--met in Ripon, Wis. (the small town where the Republican party was supposedly founded and from which the Society takes its name. They condemned a Goldwater strategy "that must inevitably exploit the 'white backlash' to the civil rights movement...
...Ripon Society is a Republican Party thought group founded two years ago, largely by Harvard people in Cambridge. Its basic premise is that the Republican Party is in need of ideas today, and that it must reshape its image if it is to be successful in the future...
...page state-by-state and over-all analysis of the 1964 elections released today, the Ripon Society blamed the Goldwater "experiment" for leading at least 43 congressional and two senatorial seats for the Republican Party, attacked Republican leadership for blunders in campaign strategy and technique, and suggested that a formal apology be made to Martin Luther King for Republican unfair campaign practices...
...Ripon Society, itself composed of young people, directed the closing remarks of the report to the youth of the nation: "...today no man and no Party carries the torch of our generation. This is the great tragedy of American polities ...And it is the great opportunity of a new Republican Party...