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...Stand with Me." In Topeka, Scranton kept hammering at Goldwater's philosophy. Cried he to his fellow Republicans: "Suppose the Democrats can accuse us-and be believed-of an irresponsible defense policy that would turn over the decision to use nuclear weapons to field commanders? Suppose they can accuse us of trying to destroy the social security system? Suppose they can establish that we think foreign policy is a matter of shooting from the hip-and who cares what we hit? Suppose they show that when the chips are down, Republicans won't stand for equal rights...
...Louis press conference, Scranton's aggressiveness led him into making a charge that he later regretted. Discussing Goldwater's refusal to meet him in a face-to-face television debate, Scranton said: "I think this indicates an apparent lack of courage to face people." Later, in Denver, Scranton apologized, said his remark had been "ill-advised." "I know Goldwater has personal courage," he explained. "No one denies that. But since the New Hampshire primary, he has been guarded and hemmed in by the politicians around him lest he express his personal views...
...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...