Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Johnson, Lodge cited only "personal reasons" for wishing to return to the U.S. His wife Emily has, in fact, been ailing, but not seriously, and the compelling cause for Lodge's decision was his desire to participate actively in the presidential campaign of Moderate Republican William Scranton against Conservative Barry Goldwater...
...newsman friend. "What finally tipped the balance was that in the last two or three weeks I've heard from people in whom I have a good deal of faith and confidence that my returning to the U.S. could make a significant difference in the prospects for Scranton's nomination. I felt a tremendous responsibility in this matter. I even felt the pressure here in Viet Nam. One afternoon I ran into a young Army captain, and he asked, 'Sir, are you going home to help Scranton?', and when I said...
Where were they? Headed for Wilmington? Leaving Cleveland? Circling Miami? Such was the pace of Republican William Scranton's headlong campaign for the G.O.P. presidential nomination that in the minds of aides and newsmen traveling with him in his chartered Electra, places and events blurred...
This Eastern-clique business is a fetish with Goldwater and his followers; they constantly compare 1964 to 1952, when, they insist, the Republican kingmakers of the industrial Northeast cheated Robert A. Taft out of the Republican nomination. The comparison, of course, is absurd. Bill Scranton has not achieved the national stature of a Dwight Eisenhower, and Barry Goldwater is far, far from being a Bob Taft. Moreover, the storied kingmakers who launched Ike into politics-and thereby won undying enmity from the G.O.P.'s conservative wing-did not catapult Scranton, or anyone else, into the race...
With three weeks to go before the convention, Scranton's fight is uphill. Goldwater managers now claim some 700 delegates, more than enough to win nomination.* But of these, only about half are really committed. Of the others, many lean toward Barry mostly because they figure he might just as well be the Republican sacrifice in a Democratic year. If they were convinced that another candidate might actually win the presidency and carry hundreds of other Republicans into office with him, their loyalty to Barry almost certainly would waver and wane. It is up to Bill Scranton to convince...