Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scranton readily admitted that it was awfully late to stop Goldwater, and he accepted part of the blame: "I share responsibility with others of our leaders who until now have failed to act. Surely all of us now must confront what is a reality. The Republican Party is in danger-and some say our country...
That admission of tardiness was well taken. For Bill Scranton's belated but all-out entry into the G.O.P. running came only after months of "let Rocky do it" stands by Republican leaders who wished to stop Goldwater but did not want to get hurt in the process. Scranton's entry also came after, and in the light of, one of the more ludicrous episodes in the history of the Republican Party, an exercise in ineptness, vacillation and rear-view heroism that nearly reduced the G.O.P. to a laughingstock before the entire nation...
...things did not quite turn out like that. Goldwater of course beat Rocky in California, if only by a skin-of-the-tooth margin of 59,000 votes out of more than 2,000,000 cast. To Scranton, that made it seem even more urgent for the Republicans in Cleveland to rally behind a moderate who might beat Goldwater...
...Unopened Paper. All the while, Scranton stayed silent, telling nobody of his telephone talk with Ike. From the breakfast, he went to Cleveland's KYW-TV studios for his Face the Nation date. During his appearance, he kept his announcement of active candidacy, written on a twice-folded sheet of white paper, unopened on the table in front of him. For half an hour-and later in a press conference-he hemmed, hawed and hedged, adding little to the position he had taken for weeks. "If the majority of the delegates at the convention want me," he repeated over...
Reaction to Scranton's performance was immediate, and explosive. Reporters promptly dubbed him "the Harrisburg Hamlet." Watching Face the Nation, George Romney asked bitterly: "Where are his principles?" Asked what he thought of Scranton as a party leader, Rockefeller replied with scalding sarcasm: "Did you see him on television...