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Silver noted that the White Citizens Council is undergoing "a quick and rapid decline." The extremists of the group, he said, are factioning off into the Ku Klux Klan and the Society for the Preservation of the White Race. The moderates have simply stopped paying their dues.
If Thurmond was anxious to drum the liberals out of the party, some liberals and moderates were equally eager for a purge of ultraconservatives. Senator Scott, who barely survived the Johnson landslide in his bid for reelection, insisted that "Southern scalawags" and the "hardcore radical right" be thrown out of...
But now he, like Kuchel in California and Javits in New York, faces pressure to give up his seat to run for governor--an office that has the patronage necessary to nourish the party organism. He does not want to run, as he cannot "see the obligation." But he refuses...
Murphy's victory last week over short-term Incumbent Democrat Pierre Salinger was a classic study in how to handle the California electorate. Democrats there outnumber Republicans 3 to 2. To rate even the thinnest chance of winning, Murphy not only had to hold onto all factions of the...
Blue Eyes v. Blue Jowls. His campaign was managed by Robert Finch, Dick Nixon's old stage director. And the winning script was simple enough: be bland, be affable, offend no one by taking controversial stands, and never let anyone forget that Salinger was a carpetbagging resident of Virginia...