Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louisville, Scranton went after Goldwater for another of Barry's many lip-shooting remarks. "I believe it most unfortunate," said Scranton, "that the present front-running candidate for our presidential nomination has embarrassed our party by announcing that people who are poor have only their stupidity or their laziness to blame. This is a slander on the thousands of good Americans who through no fault of their own have been caught in the backlash of our urbanized, industrialized, fast-moving society. There is a need for the party of Lincoln to remember that 'there but for the grace...
...Real Opponent. This was tough talk, but no tougher than Scranton's attack on the Johnson Administration, which he accused not of having "bad policies," but of having "no policies." The Democrats, he said, "have put together a short-order foreign policy, serving each day's hash from the leavings of yesterday's mistakes." If given the nomination, he pledged, he would "strip away the sham promises, the heavy-handed politics-as-usual, the worn bag of political legerdemain which the Johnson Administration has substituted for a sense of national purpose. For the past six months...
Winding up his week before a tumultuous crowd at the Massachusetts G.O.P. convention in Boston, Scranton again lashed out at the Democrats: "There is not a single thing in President Johnson's poverty bill that is going to help anybody who is poverty-stricken or who hasn't enough to eat." Moving into foreign policy, Scranton said that the present Administration "has failed to produce a single good idea or successful strategy during its first year in office...
...campaign, Scranton was winning strong allies among the forces of moderate Republicanism. Henry Cabot Lodge's campaign backers were now working for Scranton. Nelson Rockefeller withdrew from the race, threw his support (and, perhaps more important, the facilities of his widespread organization) to Scranton. And while Dwight Eisenhower maintained a glum silence, his brother Milton sent Scranton a lengthy letter of endorsement, said pointedly: "I know that you avoid snap judgments and clever remarks devoid of sincerity and common sense. I admire you for your moderate but firm philosophy, and I hope the American people will realize what...
...Sinister East. What was Candi date Goldwater doing while Scranton was hitting the Midwestern hustings against him? For one thing, he was still picking up delegates. Montana, last of all the states to select its delegates, picked a solid, 14-member Goldwater group. Three days earlier in Texas, Goldwater had, as expected, added all 56 of the state's delegates. At the Texas convention, Goldwater extended his past attacks on the sinister "Eastern clique" of powerful Republicans who oppose him to include certain elements of the press. Said he: "All of a sudden all the radical columnists-Childs, Lippmann...