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Impulsive Goldwater Wins Nomination Through Organization
A veteran UPI writer outlines how Barry Goldwater clinched the Republican presidential nomination despite poor polls and GOP opposition. He credits Goldwater’s decade of party work, a delegate collecting strategy, and conservative discontent for carrying him to the convention over Scranton and Rockefeller.
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UPI
Barry Goldwater
San Francisco
Goldwater
John F. Kennedy
South
Richard M. Nixon
Chicago
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Kennedy
Johnson
New Hampshire
Henry Cabot Lodge
Sen
Margaret Chase Smith
Illinois
Harold E. Stassen
Indiana
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nixon
Scranton