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...prefer that the finger on the trigger be guided by Barry Goldwater, not a bumble-brained L.B.J...
...fact, that South Dakota's Republican Karl Mundt, himself a notable rough-and-tumble campaigner and a strong Barry Goldwater partisan, rose in the Senate last week to decry its "low-level, schoolyard" tactics. Complained Mundt: "What kind of madness is upon us? Ignoramus, crook, warmonger, demagogue, trigger-happy, vote-thief - these are some of the terms we hear booted about by candidates for President of the greatest country in the world." But there is still time, he said, "to restore some degree of dignity and decency." The Essentials. So far neither candidate has shown much inclination to ward...
...Atlantic City, Democratic Convention Keynoter John Pastore cried that "on the question of whose finger should be on the trigger of the atomic bomb, that power today rests solely with the President of the United States...
...official in the country-the President of the United States." Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Hubert Humphrey is going around asking audiences: "The question before the electorate is simple, prophetic, profound-which of these men, Lyndon Johnson or Barry Goldwater, do you want to have his hand on the nuclear trigger?" (As against that, G.O.P. Veep Nominee William Miller says that by the time a NATO commander under attack got in touch with Johnson to see if he could use nuclear weapons, it "might be too late if he had to get Lyndon on the phone driving...
Majority Rule. How would the committee decide whether to squeeze the nuclear trigger-the key question of all? Said Norstad: "In the interest of prompt decision, the committee, and through it the alliance, should be ruled by the decision of the majority. The majority decision would not bind, at least initially, a nation positively dissenting...