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Concluded Scranton: "Barry's chances in the cities are just unbelievably poor. Yesterday, for instance, we completed our latest check in Philadelphia. Barry Goldwater can count on only 11% of the total vote against Lyndon Johnson...
...Coalition. In that statement lay the sum and substance of Scranton's campaign strategy. If he is to perform the near miracle of heading off Goldwater, he must convince the G.O.P. and the nation that 1) Barry would run so badly against President Johnson as to drag down and perhaps defeat Republican candidates at all levels, and 2) he, Bill Scranton, would have a far better chance against Johnson, might even win, and in any event would enhance the chances of other G.O.P. candidates...
...Behind Scranton's candidacy were coalescing most of the major forces of moderate Republicanism-with the notable exceptions of Dwight Eisenhower, who still refuses to take a public stand, and Richard Nixon, who remains tangled in the web of his own ambitions. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was coming back from Saigon "to do everything I can" to aid Scranton. Nelson Rockefeller had turned over to Scranton the facilities of his own presidential campaign organization, and last week went so far as to say he would not support Goldwater even if Barry was the Republican nominee. Michigan's Governor...
There were, of course, disappointments. While Scranton's cause was helped by the reaffirmation of Ohio's 58-member delegation to vote for a favorite son, Governor James Rhodes, on the first ballot, Scranton's hopes for a breakthrough in the Illinois and Indiana delegations were rebuffed. Early in the week, Scranton stopped by the Capitol Hill office of Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, pointedly suggested that Ev would make a "great favorite son." But Dirksen was having no part of such a holding action. He was convinced that Goldwater had a strangle hold on the Illinois...
What He Was Saying. In their coverage of Scranton's campaign, most reporters seemed to be concentrating on the success or failure of such efforts at delegate scrounging. As a result, much of what Scranton was saying in his public speeches received only cursory notice. Yet what he was saying was well worth hearing...