Before the Storm (119 page)

353 Eisenhower's about-face is in Edwards,
Goldwater,
223.
“You can't canter without a horse”
: Goldberg,
Barry Goldwater,
193. Final Harris polls are in White with Gill,
Suite
3505, 344.
“Please keep in mind”
: Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition,
85.

353 The story of CBS on election night is told in Bill Leonard,
In the Storm of the
Eye:
A Lifetime at CBS
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1987), 95-113.

354 For California primary returns, see Anderson and Lee, “1964 Election in California.” For the failing of polls, see Earl Mazo, “California Republican Primary Trips the Polls,” NYT, June 4, 1964. For the role of A
Choice, Not an Echo,
see Shadegg,
What Happened,
124. The story of Goldwater's drinking is in Edwards,
Goldwater,
227.
“I'm going right down the line”: Chicago Daily News,
June 3, 1964.

355
In Mississippi, Freedom Summer organizers:
author interview with Congressman Barney Frank. For “little old ladies in tennis shoes,” see Stanley Mosk and Howard H. Jewel, “The Birch Phenomenon Analyzed,” NYTM, August 20, 1961. For packages: “Mosk ‘Flooded' by Shoes, Sandles,” SFC, August 10, 1961. Foreign press roundup is in
Time,
June 12, 1964. For de-Nazification trials, see “Ugly Past Lives Again in Germany Nazi Trials,” LAT, February 23, 1964.

355 Religious retreat story is from author interview with Graham T. T. Molitor.

 

17. DUTY
356 The theory that governors are inherently moderates is in Theodore H. White,
The Making of the President 1964
(New York: Atheneum, 1965), 176. For the governors' dread over racial disorder, see USN, June 22, 1964.

357 Narration of Cleveland governors conference is from James M. Perry, A Report
in Depth on Barry Goldwater: The Story of the 1964 Republican Presidential Nominee
(Silver Spring, Md.: National Observer, 1964), 109-12;
Newsweek,
June 22, 1964; F. Clifton White with William Gill, Suite
3505: The Story of the Draft Goldwater Movement
(New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1967), 362-68; George D. Wolf,
William Warren Scranton: Pennsylvania Statesman
(State College: Penn State Press, 1981), 104-7; Stephen Shadegg,
What Happened
to
Goldwater?
:
The Inside Story of the 1964 Republican Campaign
(New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965), 126-28; Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “The Unmaking of a President,”
Esquire,
November 1964, esp. for Nixon's role; Murray Kempton, TNR, June 20, 1964; and
Time,
June 19, 1964.

358 Expose of Johnson's business dealings is in “The Johnson Money,” WS, June 9, 1964. Rostow's “up to and including all-out nuclear war” is in NYT, June 9, 1964. For King in St. Augustine, see Taylor Branch,
Pillar of Fire: America in the King
Years,
1963-1965
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998), 326-27, 337-40.

359 Scranton's brooding and decision are in Perry, A
Report in Depth,
113-14;
Time,
June 19, 1964; and Wolf,
William Warren Scranton,
108-10.

359 For Maryland state chair, see Robert Novak,
The Agony of the GOP 1964
(New York: Macmillan, 1965), 298. Scranton's entrance speech is in Walter Judd Papers, Box 213/Presidential Campaigns, HI.

360 For Scranton's December letter to Goldwater, see White with Gill,
Suite
3505, 368.
“The Republican establishment is desperate”
: NYT, June 13, 1964.
“I guess he doesn't know my views”:
Murray Kempton, TNR, June 20, 1964.

360 For Scranton campaign trail quotes, see John Kessel,
The Goldwater Coalition: Republican Strategies in 1964
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968), 101; NYT, June 16, 1964;
Life,
June 26, 1964;
Time,
June 26, 1964, and July 3, 1964; Mary McGrory, WS, June 19, 1964; and Wolf,
William Warren Scranton,
112-13.

360 “A coordinated labor market” is in
Detroit News,
June 27, 1964. For Scranton's Taft quotes, see
Time,
July 3, 1964. For the liberals' Taft fetish, see “Campaigner Goldwater,” Stewart Alsop, SEP, September 19, 1964; David Riesman quote in “Thunder on the Far Right: Fear and Frustration,”
Newsweek,
December 4, 1961; White,
Making of the President
1964, 113, 117-18, 262; Richard Hofstadter, “A Long View: Goldwater in History,” NYRB, October 8, 1964; and Bruce Chapman, interviewed on ABC
Reports,
November 10, 1963, RAC, Box 10/773. Lippmann, Time, and Rovere quotes are in James T. Patterson,
Mr. Republican:
A
Biography of Robert Taft
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972), 314, 531.

361 For Scranton's strategy, see Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition,
99; and Wolf,
William Warren Scranton,
114. Telegrams and so forth to delegates: White with Gill,
Suite
3505, 379. For 55 to 34 Gallup poll, see Time, July 3, 1964. Schlafly on Gallup is in Phyllis Schlafly, A
Choice, Not an Echo
(Alton, III.: Pere Marquette Press, 1964), 45. Buckley quote is in John B. Judis,
William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives
(New York: Touchstone, 1990), 207.

361 For “on the right track” statement, hear LBJT, 6406.16/12. For what the GI told him, see William J. Miller,
Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography
(New York: Heineman, 1967), 363. For Milton Eisenhower, see TNR, June 20, 1964. For Gates, see Middendorf to Burch, June 26, 1964, and Middendorf to Kitchel, June 26, 1964, FCW, Box 8/Wm. Middendorf. For Dewey, see
Newsweek,
July 6, 1964.

362 Schlafly quotes are in A
Choice Not an Echo,
86-87.

362 For statistic on banking resources, see White,
Making of the President 1964,
85. For physicians, see Jack Anderson, LAT, July 3, 1964.

362 Lodge airport reception and failed trip is in
Newsweek,
July 20, 1964. Roundup of media praise for Scranton campaign is in
Time,
July 3, 1964. Iowa claim is June 16, 1964, UPI dispatch in SHBGS. For Illinois, see
Chicago Daily News
editorial, June 16, 1964.

362 “Storied kingmakers” quote is in
Time,
June 26, 1964. Telegrams to Goldwater: White with Gill,
Suite 3505,
378.

363 For church burnings, see Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
367-83. For Goldwater's visit to Eisenhower and meeting with Yerger and Grenier, see John Grenier OH, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4007: A-9.

363 For Kitchel to Goldwater in 1962, see two letters dated November 12, 1962, in DK, Box2/Goldwater, Barry, 1947-63. For Rehnquist in Phoenix and on
Plessy,
see
David Saraye,
Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court
(New York: John Wiley, 1992), 31-32, 35-38. For Goldwater consulting Rehnquist and Bork, see Jon Margolis,
The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964: The Beginning of the “Sixties”
(New York: Morrow, 1999), 239. For Bork brief, see Perry, Report
in Depth.
For Bork quote, see TNR, August 31,1963.

364 Goldwater's mien on the Senate floor is described in
Time,
June 26, 1964. The full speech is in White with Gill,
Suite
3505, 429-31.

364 For Mississippi precinct day, MFDP, Mississippi regular Democrats, and civil rights workers' disappearance, see Margolis,
Last Innocent Year,
238, 242-55 (Cronkite quote on 254). For Lippmann column, see NYHT, June 30, 1964.

365
The New York Times found it impossible:
“Arizona Target of GOP Leader,” NYT, June 20, 1964. For Scranton courting Dirksen in Washington, see White with Gill,
Suite 3505,
373.

365
“It looks good in North Carolina!”: Birmingham World,
July 4, 1964. For Illinois whistle-stop, see Wolf,
William Warren Scranton,
113. For Illinois delegation meeting, see White with Gill,
Suite
3505, 372; Margolis,
Last Innocent Year,
259; Wolf,
William Warren Scranton,
113; and Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition,
103.

365 For 1952 Dirksen speech, see AHF, Box W3/6.

365 For Johnson's quote upon signing the Civil Rights Act, see Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
404. On violence, see “The Civil Rights Law Goes into Action,” USN, July 20, 1964. For the LACYR's resolution, see Stewart Alsop, SEP, September 29, 1964. Scranton's trip West is in Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition,
104. For Theodore Roosevelt's granddaughter, see White,
Making of the President
1964, 165.

366
“I doubt he's got it completely locked up”
: Michael Beschloss, ed.,
Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997),419-20.

366
“The 1952 tricks will be used again”
: Middendorf to Kitchel, June 26, 1964, and Middendorf to Burch, June 27, 1964, FCW, Box 8/Middendorf.

366 For White and Day at the Mark Hopkins, see White with Gill, Suite 3505, 381-82.

367 For White's JFK influence, see White,
Suite
3505, 243. For JFK apparatus, see Thomas C. Reeves, A
Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Free Press, 1991), 174; and Pierre Salinger,
With Kennedy
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966), 38. For Laird, see Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition,
107.

367 White's confidence mixed with fear is in White with Gill,
Suite
3505, 377-78.

367 For turn-the-other-cheek strategy in platform committee, see
The GOP Constructs a Platform,
CBS News special, MTR, T78:0143.

367 For buddy system, see Shadegg,
What Happened,
139. Transportation is described in White with Gill, Suite
3505,
384; and Shadegg,
What Happened,
138, 145. For delegate binders, see Shadegg, 137. For “Can be influenced” quote, see report on Michigan delegate Robert Flood; AHF, Box W¾.

367 For delegation command posts, see
Chicago Daily News,
July 14, 1964.

367 For communications system, see White with Gill, Suite 3505, 381-82; Lee Edwards,
Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery,
1995), 254; Shadegg,
What Happened,
137, 159; White,
Making of the President 1964
;
Time,
July 13, 1964; and author interviews with Lee Edwards and Ron Crawford.

368 For TV and radio setup: author interview with Edwards and Carol Dawson; Shadegg,
What Happened,
145; White with Gill, Suite 3505, 383.

368 For security, see Drew Pearson, “A Look at Barry's ‘Armed Camp,' ” WP, July 15, 1964;
Time,
July 13, 1964; and White with Gill,
Suite 3505,
383-84. See also photographs in AHFCP, vol. 3, photos 15, 16, 18, and 22.

369 The trailer is described in Shadegg,
What Happened,
144-45; Margolis,
Last Innocent Year,
267; White,
Making of the President 1964,
264; and F. Clifton White with Jerome Tuccille,
Politics as a Noble Calling
(Ottawa, III.: Jameson Books, 1994), 159. For trailer security, see Shadegg,
What Happened,
159. For pools of volunteers, see “Special Trains Head for S.F.,”
Youth for Goldwater Newsletter,
March 1964, JCJ. For warehouses, see
Newsweek
, July 13, 1964.

369 For media setup I rely on Shadegg,
What Happened,
134;
White, Making of the President 1964
, 231; Herb Caen,
San Francisco Chronicle,
July 16, 1964; WP, July 13, 1964, and July 15, 1964: Alan Brinkley, “The Taming of the Political Convention,” in Brinkley,
Liberalism and
Its
Discontents
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998), 249-65; J. Leonard Reinsch.
Getting Elected: From Radio and
Roosevelt to Television
and Reagan
(New York: Hippocrene, 1988), 107, 289; The
GOP Constructs a Platform,
CBS News special (for “us television types”); Norman Mailer, “In a Blue Light: A History of the 1964 Republican Convention,”
Esquire,
November 1964; and author interview with Alan Brinkley.

 

371 The
RNC first estimated that 20,000:
WP, July 12, 1964.

371 For civil rights march, see Arnold Rampersad,
Jackie Robinson: A Biography
(New York: Knopf, 1997), 86; NYT, July 13, 1964; and CBS News special, MTR, T78:0143.

371 Scranton billboards:
Newsweek,
July 13, 1964. Nob Hill traffic: WP, July 13, 1964.
“We are the Goldwater armeeeee”
: Ralph McGill column,
Atlanta Constitution
, July 11. 1964. Phyllis Schlafly: Carol Felsenthal,
Sweetheart of the Silent Majority: The Biography of Phyllis Schlafly
(New York: Doubleday, 1981), 163-78. Ronald Reagan: Gore Vidal,
United States: Essays,
1952-1992 (New York: Random House, 1993), 980. Buckley: Gregory Schneider,
Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right
(New York: NYU Press, 1999), 81-82; and WP, July 12, 1964. Eisenhower: CBS News special, MTR, T78:0I43. Scranton and BMG followed by chants: AHFCP, vol. I, picture 14.

372 For “Merry Pranksters,” see Tom Wolfe,
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968). For North Beach and “Eisenhower Sway,” see William J. Miller,
Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography
(New York: Heineman, 1967), 368; and WP, July 12, 1964. Dick Gregory: author interview with Jameson Campaigne Jr.; and
Newsweek,
July 20, 1964.

372 For Der
Spiegel,
see WSJ. July 31, 1964; F. Clifton White with William Gill,
Suite
3505: The Story of the Draft Goldwater Movement
(New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1967), 389; and, for transcript, LBJWHAM, Box 30/Clippings and Document and Departmental Refutations Book, 1 of 3.
“Now decided to defoliate”:
White with
Gill, Suite
3505, 390.