Word: salzen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles Scott '67, vice-president of the club last year and now a first year student at the Business School, thinks that the Machine is defunct today. He said, "It never recovered from Eric Van Salzen...
...Salzen came to the presidency of the club in 1964, a bad year for Republicans. Goldwater is only partially to blame for the decline in the HYRC which began that year. The Republican Party may have recovered from the debacle of '64, but the club...
...Salzen beat the Machine candidate in the '64 club election. The Machine had been effective from the spring of 1962 to the spring of 1964, and the club's membership had climbed to almost 400 from approximately 150 five years before. The Young Democrats, at Democratic Harvard, had a membership of 100 less. A trip to Washington in 1963 received national publicity and brought more speakers to the club than ever before. According to Scott, "The Machine set the line, and things got done...
...Salzen ended this, and there has been no evidence of character assassination within the Executive Committee of the Harvard Young Republican Club this year. Members do snipe at each other, but the petty grievances would hardly interest outsiders. The two presidential aspirants this fall have had friendly talks about the upcoming election; it is possible that one may decide not to run. The ideological differences between the two have not inspired the fight of the past...
McNicol, Von Salzen, and seven of the ten other executive committee members voted for the resolution, which would be effective until October...