Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Five Words. On the way back to Harrisburg, Bill Scranton sat seething in the rear seat of a Pennsylvania National Guard Super Constellation. As much as anyone, Scranton realized that the fiasco in Cleveland had damaged his political standing and that, regardless of how he felt about the party and its 1964 nominee, he had to take some action that would redeem his own political image. Just before the plane landed, he instructed his aides to arrange a meeting for the next night at the governor's mansion at Indiantown Gap, some 20 miles from Harrisburg...
...that meeting were his wife Mary, daughter Susan, 17, son Joe, 14, Senator Hugh Scott, Administrative Assistant Bill Keisling, Speechwriter Malcolm Moos, and nine other state party officials and Scranton staffers. At 5 p.m. Scranton walked into the room, seated himself by the great stone fireplace, listened for some three hours while his family and friends urged him to go all out for the nomination. Finally, Scranton stood up. "Now," he said abruptly, "we have a lot to do. I am going to run." Moos, who used to write speeches for President Eisenhower, reached over, picked a piece of paper...
Telephone calls immediately went out to top Republicans across the U.S. -to Romney, Rockefeller, Ray Bliss. Dwight Eisenhower and many others. As Scranton later recalled his conversation with Ike: "I told him I was going to run. He simply said that was that, and it was fine, and I said thank you and I got off the phone." Dick Nixon was reached in London, where he had flown on private business. Scranton tried to tele phone Goldwater, failed, and sent him a telegram instead...
...Those Noble Words." Hasty arrangements were made for Scranton to appear next day at the Maryland state convention to deliver his announcement...
...come here," cried Scranton, "to announce that I am a candidate for the presidency of the United States...