Word: shaddeg
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Repeatedly, for example, Shaddeg declares that Goldwater the Presidential Candidate was a different man from Goldwater the Senator. But he never says very much about the difference. Caught between his friendship for Goldwater (to whom the book is dedicated "with affection and admiration") and the fact of the horrendous GOP failure, Shaddeg keeps his criticism, vague and muted...
What results is a partial-and unsatisfactory-sketch of the 1964 debacle. Goldwater did not lead his campaign because he never really felt a deep personal desire to become President. "He agreed to run," Shaddeg lamely states, 'because there was nothing else he could...
...Although Shaddeg does not adequately explain the Arizonan's reluctance to run, he makes plain the disastrous consequences...
...Second, listless campaigning habits, and a failure to generate confidence and energy in his followers. According to Shaddeg's report, after one speech Goldwater "left the rossrum, paused only briefly to speak to one person at the edge of the crowd, then entered the elevator and went up to his suite on the fiftenth floor. His sudden departure had not been prearranged. In his 1958 campaign...Goldwater had always stayed around and visited with the audience afterwards." The candidate's coldness naturally left the "disappointed Goldwater supporters...angry and bewildered...
...campaign was not at all that simple. Many of the most effective Republican politicians also regarded the campaign as a crusade. Certainly Shaddeg and White did. Nor can any book claim to tell the full story while shrugging off Kennedy's assassination, the Republican primaries, and the political polish of LBJ, as this one does...