Word: scrantons
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...forced to admit that, even if William Scranton had been nominated at San Francisco, he would not have run much better than Goldwater. Right-wing zealots and Midwestern conservatives, foiled for the seventh straight time in as many national conventions, would not have done much for the young Governor from Hotchkiss and Yale. It is conceivable that the Republican candidate might have won fewer electoral votes than Governor George Wallace could have...
...view of Republicanism and practices a policy of inclusion rather than exclusion." They said the party should "vigorously oppose all forms of narrow political radicalism, whether right or left." Some Governors felt this skirted the dump-Burch issue. But three of the most influential men there-Pennsylvania's Scranton, New York's Rockefeller and Michigan's Romney-insisted that the resolution was really a clear-cut demand for Dean Burch's scalp, although nothing can be done officially until the National Committee meets...
...Nixon supported Rockefeller, Scranton or Romney before the Convention, some of us Republicans might have had a candidate to vote...
...Richard Nixon was right in rebuking Rockefeller for trying to divide the G.O.P. and in praising Scranton for preaching unity. Scarcely 24 hours after Goldwater's defeat, Rockefeller zeroed in on him with cleated boots. It takes no courage to kick a man when he is down, while his wounds are still raw and bleeding. Rockefeller seems to be a compulsive wrecker, whether it is a home or a party...
...mention of the Democratic party the members of this group see a montage of ward heelers and ward bosses, cigars in mouths, poker hands on the table. For when Case, Rockefeller, Scranton, and Lindsay entered politics, the Democratic party in the northeast--despite its noble patriarch Franklin Roosevelt--was dominated by Catholic immigrants, largely Irish and Italian. Its supreme symbol was Alfred E. Smith. Case, a minister's son and the descendant of an old family, chose the Republicans...