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Inexperienced & Groggy. On the convention's eve, Scranton, still clinging to hope, conferred with Henry Cabot Lodge and Nelson Rockefeller, decided upon the desperate ploy of challenging Goldwater to a man-to-man debate before the assembled convention. Scranton ordered his top speechwriter, William Keisling, 28, to draft a letter to Barry demanding the confrontation. Then he went off to make a television appearance...
Keisling, inexperienced in national politics and groggy from his efforts during Scranton's exhausting month-long campaign, batted out the document, then checked it with Pennsylvania's Attorney General Walter Alessandroni, Scranton's most trusted political adviser. A receptionist, one of several authorized to sign Scranton's name, did just that, and the letter went down to Barry. Scranton never read...
...exploded in rage, summoned his aides and tossed the diatribe to them to read. Between curses he cried, "What do you think of that?" They thought it was shocking-so shocking that it just might work to Barry's advantage. They photocopied the original, fired it back to Scranton without comment, then ran off 4,000 copies on a mimeograph machine. By early morning, Goldwater messengers had slipped a copy under the hotel-room door of every delegate and alternate in town...
...results were spectacular: in a convention where extremism was the bitterest of issues, the hot-eyed polemics of the Scranton-inspired letter infuriated scores of delegates, ended for good any possibility of conciliation between the rival camps. From that moment on, the Goldwater forces ruled the convention with a fist of steel-and refused to give the opposition even the slightest quarter...
...being dumped by the national party organization. Others fear that whether Goldwater purges or not, his zealous state and local supporters may try to do the job for him. In Colorado, for example, the Goldwaterites are already crying for the political scalp of Governor John Love, one of three Scranton supporters in the state's 18-man convention delegation...