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...Those Noble Words." Hasty arrangements were made for Scranton to appear next day at the Maryland state convention to deliver his announcement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: I Am a Candidate | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...come here," cried Scranton, "to announce that I am a candidate for the presidency of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: I Am a Candidate | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...bore down heavily on the civil rights issue, fully aware that Goldwater's image is badly flawed on that subject. The Republican Party, said Scranton, must be "responsible for human liberty, its preservation on the North American continent and its inspiration around the entire world; responsible for giving every American a fair chance at a share of the good life; responsible for underlining the injunctions of the Constitution and the Declaration of Inde pendence; to put solid flesh on those noble words that all men are created equal." In that statement, Scranton reflected the mainstream of national Republican thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: I Am a Candidate | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Perhaps even more telling was Scranton's argument that Goldwater, as the party's presidential nominee, would help bring to defeat scores of Republican state and local candidates. "Lincoln," he said, "knew, as all of you know and I know, that in a presidential year the candidate at the top of the ticket can obviously help those below, or he can doom them to undeserved defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: I Am a Candidate | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...Welcome." After hearing Scranton's announcement of candidacy, Dwight Eisenhower said, rather remarkably: "At last someone has done what I have urged." Romney and Rockefeller both praised Scranton's move, but neither promised to deliver his delegates. In London, Nixon said he thought Scranton was doing the right thing, but he remained neutral. But when he got back to New York, Nixon flashed his stiletto, said of Scranton: "If a man receives a phone call and changes his mind, he isn't a very strong man. He's got to make his own decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: I Am a Candidate | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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