GOLDWATER CALLS RIVAL ‘EXTREMIST’; Asserts He, Not Rockefeller, Is in G.O.P. Mainstream (original) (raw)
GOLDWATER CALLS RIVAL ‘EXTREMIST’; Asserts He, Not Rockefeller, Is in G.O.P. Mainstream
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March 15, 1964
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FRESNO, Calif., March 14—Senator Barry Goldwater asserted today that he represented true Republicanism and that supporters of Governor Rockefeller were “Republican extremists.”
Mr. Goldwater also accused Henry Cabot Lodge, the United States Ambassador to South Vietnam, of keeping “banker's hours” in his Vice Presidential campaign of 1960.
“I can't believe the party would ever nominate him for any position again,” the Senator said.
Mr. Goldwater opposes Mr. Rockefeller in the California Republican Presidential primary election, which will select 86 national convention delegates on June 2
The Arizonan seems more at ease and confident campaigning in this Western state than he did in the snow and Yankee chilliness of New Hampshire.
Mr. Goldwater showed again today that in this campaign he is trying not to be put on the defensive by his opponent's charges.
Among these are a contention that a victory for Mr. Goldwater would be a victory for the John Birch Society and that Mr. Goldwater is “out of the mainstream of the Republican. party.”
Both candidates, as well as a lonely Harold E. Stassen, were politicking today at a convention of the California Republican Assembly here. Mr. Goldwater is seeking the endorsement of the group and Mr. Rockefeller is trying to persuade it to endorse no candidate this vear
Voting statistics compiled by the Congressional Quarterly were cited today by Mr. Goldwater in an effort to demonstrate that he is a regular Republican and that Mr. Rockefeller and his California supporters represent a minority liberal view in the party.
At a morning cottee meeung with Fresno precinct workers and at a news conference later, Mr. Goldwater accused both Senator Thomas H. Kuchel, a Rockefeller supporter in California, and Senator Jacob K. Javits of New York of being “Republican extremists.”
Mr. Goldwater argued that they voted with the Democrats almost as often as with their own narty.
Asserting that he was “up to my neck in the mainstream” of Republicanism, Mr. Goldwater said he had voted with the majority of Republicans in the Senate 76 per cent of the time since 1933, and that last year he had voted “in agreement with Republican principles 81 per cent of the time.”
He said that Senator Kuchel had voted according to such principles only 53 per cent of the time.
Mr. Goldwater repeated a formal statement issued yesterday that he was not seeking extremist votes. He said that the Birch Society did not endorse candidates and that he was certain they would not endorse him.
He said he was “sorry” that Mr. Rockefeller did not discuss “real” issues.
Although he did not repudiate the John Birch Society, Mr. Goldwater said he had disagreed “completely, roundly and loudly for years” with the society's founder, Robert H. W. Welch Jr.
At his news conference, Mr. Goldwater said he would not be surprised if Mr. Lodge had been part of a so‐called stop‐Goldwater movement.
The Senator said he had never considered Mr. Lodge as a serious candidate and “I don't think so now.”
In a speech prepared tor tne California Republican Assembly delegates tonight, Mr. Goldwater declared that there was a conservative mood in the country and that President Johnson was trying to pose as a conservative.
“Why should Americans settle for second‐hand conservatives?” he asked.
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