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{{Short description|Political convention of the Republican Party}}
{{Infobox national political convention
|year = 1964
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|caption = Nominees<br />Goldwater and Miller
|date = July 13–16, 1964
|city = [[Daly City
|venue = [[Cow Palace]]
|chair = [[Thruston Ballard Morton]]
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The '''1964 Republican National Convention''' took place in the [[Cow Palace]], [[Daly City, California]], from July 13 to July 16, 1964. Before 1964, there had been only one national Republican convention on the West Coast, the [[1956 Republican National Convention]], which also took place in the Cow Palace. Many believed that a convention at San Francisco indicated the rising power of the Republican Party in the west.<ref>{{cite book |first=Stephen |last=Shadegg |author-link=Stephen Shadegg |title=What Happened to Goldwater? The Inside Story of the 1964 Republican Campaign |location=NY |publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston |year=1965 |page=134 |isbn=9780878370115 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=--FAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA134 }}</ref>
== Political context ==
The [[Republican Party presidential primaries, 1964|Republican primaries]] of 1964 featured liberal [[Nelson Rockefeller]] of New York and conservative [[Barry Goldwater]] of Arizona as the two leading candidates. Shortly before the California primary, Rockefeller's wife, whom he had married the previous year after divorcing his first wife, gave birth.<ref name="Davies">{{cite news |last=Davies |first=Lawrence E. |date=June 4, 1964 |title=Goldwater, Narrowly Beating Rockefeller, Sets California G.O.P. on a New Course |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/04/archives/goldwater-narrowly-beating-rockefeller-sets-california-gop-on-a-new.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York, NY |page=22 |via=[[TimesMachine]]}}</ref> This event drew renewed attention to Rockefeller's family life, which hurt his popularity among conservatives. Rockefeller's divorce and remarriage were viewed by many observers as helping Goldwater win the primary.<ref name="Davies"/> An anti-Goldwater organization called for the nomination of
Senator [[Margaret Chase Smith]]'s name was entered for nomination at the
== The convention ==
The Republican National Convention of 1964 was a tension-filled contest. Goldwater's conservatives were openly clashing with Rockefeller's moderates. Goldwater was regarded as the "conservatives' leading spokesman."<ref>{{cite book |title=The New York Times Election Handbook 1964 |location=New York |publisher=McGraw Hill |year=1964 |page=65 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46IcuAAACAAJ&pg=PA65 }}</ref> As a result, Goldwater was not as popular with the moderates and liberals of the Republican Party.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Leon D. |last1=Epstein |first2=Austin |last2=Ranney |title=Who Voted for Goldwater: The Wisconsin Case |journal=[[Political Science Quarterly]] |year=1966 |volume=81 |issue=1 |pages=82–94 [p. 85] |doi=10.2307/2146862 |jstor=2146862 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mattar |first=Edward Paul |title=Barry Goldwater: A Political Indictment |location=Minneapolis |publisher=Century Twenty One Unlimited |year=1964 |pages=84–7 }}</ref> When Rockefeller attempted to deliver a speech, he was booed by the convention's conservative delegates, who regarded him as a member of the "eastern liberal establishment."
[[File:1964 Republican National Convention.jpg|thumb|Governor [[Mark Hatfield]] appears before the convention in the [[Cow Palace]]|left]]
Former vice president and GOP presidential nominee (and future President) [[Richard Nixon]] introduced Goldwater as "Mr. Conservative" and "Mr. Republican" and continued that "he is the man who, after the greatest campaign in history, will be Mr. President — Barry Goldwater".<ref>{{YouTube|id=nQGEgH7pU58|title=Conservatives Re-Take the R...}}{{dead link|date=March 2016}}</ref> 1964 was the only Republican convention between 1952 and 1972 that did not result in Nixon being nominated for president or vice-president.
The newly opened [[Hilton San Francisco Union Square|San Francisco Hilton]] served as the headquarters of the convention.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sawislak |first1=Arnold |title=Democrats chose San Francisco today as the site of... |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/04/21/Democrats-chose-San-Fransisco-today-as-the-site-of/6377419749200/ |website=UPI |access-date=3 February 2022 |language=en |date=April 21, 1983}}</ref>
== Platform ==
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The 1964 Republican Platform was dominated by Goldwater conservatives, which meant the platform was dominated by calls for [[limited government]], condemnations of the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] foreign and domestic policy, calls for more open space for [[free enterprise]], a hard-line against [[Communism|Communist]] [[North Vietnam]], calls for reform of the [[United Nations]], a staunch support of [[NATO]], calls for [[Tax cut|lower taxes]], a hard line against international [[Communism]], and an accusation that the Kennedy Administration was guilty of [[Munich Agreement|Munich-like appeasement]] for having opened a hotline with the Soviet Union and not with American allies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25840|title=Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1964|website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu|access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref>
==
=== Presidential candidates ===
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Image:Gov. Harold E. Stassen LCCN2016877428 (cropped).jpg|Former [[List of governors of Minnesota|Governor]]<br>'''[[Harold Stassen]]'''<br>of [[Minnesota]]
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Despite political infighting, Goldwater was easily nominated on a revised first ballot. In his acceptance speech, Goldwater declared communism as a "principal disturber of the peace in the world today" and said, "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Some people, including those within his own campaign staff, believed this weakened Goldwater's chances, as he effectively severed ties with the moderates and liberals of the Republican Party.<ref>{{cite book |last=White |first=Clifton F. |title=Suite 3505: The Story of the Draft Goldwater Movement |location=New Rochelle |publisher=Arlington House |year=1967 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QOB4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA15 }}</ref>
As delegates celebrated Goldwater's nomination, Republican officials attempted to clear reporters from the convention floor.<ref name="Waterloo">{{cite news |date=August 17, 2020 |title=1964: NBC reporter arrested on air |url=https://wcfcourier.com/news/1964-nbc-reporter-arrested-on-air/image_3c9d3532-0db3-5a15-a526-5e03ef5f692e.html |work=[[The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier]] |location=Waterloo, IA}}</ref> NBC reporter [[John Chancellor]] refused to leave and was escorted from the convention by police officers, leading to his famous [[Sign-on and sign-off|signoff]], "This is John Chancellor, somewhere in custody!"<ref name="Waterloo"/> According to [[Emmy]] award-winning television journalist, [[Belva Davis]], she and another black reporter were chased out of the convention by attendees yelling racial slurs.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/19/4272687/the-reading-rack.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201174509/http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/19/4272687/the-reading-rack.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 1, 2013 |title=The Reading Rack |page=E3 |newspaper=Sacramento Bee |first=Ginger |last=Rutland |date=February 19, 2012 |access-date=November 14, 2012 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable
|- style="line-height:8em; vertical-align:bottom"
! States (1st Ballot - Before Shifts)
! {{vertical header|[[Barry Goldwater|Goldwater]]}}
! {{vertical header|[[William Scranton|Scranton]]}}
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="3" | '''Presidential Balloting'''
|-
!Candidate||1st (Before Shifts)|| 1st (After Shifts)
|-
![[Barry Goldwater|Goldwater]]
|style="background:#fbb;"|883
|style="background:#fbb;"|1,220
|-
![[William Scranton|Scranton]]
|style="background:#fdd;"|214
|style="background:#fdd;"|50
|-
![[Nelson Rockefeller|Rockefeller]]
|style="background:#fee;"|114
|6
|-
![[George W. Romney|Romney]]
||41
||1
|-
![[Margaret Chase Smith|Smith]]
||27
|style="background:#fee;"|22
|-
![[Walter Judd (politician)|Judd]]
||22
||1
|-
![[Hiram Fong|Fong]]
||5
||1
|-
![[Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.|Lodge]]
||2
|style="background:#d3d3d3"|0
|-
!Not Voting
|style="background:#d3d3d3"|0
||7
|}
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'''Presidential Balloting / 3rd Day of Convention (July 15, 1964)'''
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File:1964RepublicanPresidentialNomination1stBallotBefore.png|'''1st Presidential Ballot<br/>(Before Shifts)'''
File:1964RepublicanPresidentialNomination1stBallotAfter.png|'''1st Presidential Ballot<br/>(After Shifts)'''
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== Vice presidential nomination ==
=== Vice presidential candidates ===
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Image:William E. Miller.jpg|[[New York's 40th congressional district|Representative]]<br />'''[[William E. Miller]]'''<br>of [[New York (state)|New York]]
Image:Gerald Ford presidential portrait (cropped).jpg|[[Michigan's 5th congressional district|Representative]]<br />'''[[Gerald Ford]]'''<br>of [[Michigan]]
Image:William Scranton (R-PA) (croppedmore).jpg|[[List of governors of Pennsylvania|Governor]]<br /> '''[[William Scranton]]''' <br />of [[Pennsylvania]]
Image:Clare boothe.jpg|Former [[Connecticut's 4th congressional district|Representative]]<br />'''[[Clare Boothe Luce]]'''<br>of [[Connecticut]]
Image:John D. Lodge (CT).png|Former [[List of governors of Connecticut|Governor]]<br />'''[[John Davis Lodge]]'''<br>of [[Connecticut]]
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[[William E. Miller]], a representative from Western New York who had served as chairman of the [[Republican National Committee]] since 1961, was nominated unanimously on a roll call vote. Goldwater stated that he chose Miller to be his running mate simply because "he drives Johnson nuts" with his Republican activism.<ref name="Perlstein">{{cite book|first=Rick |last=Perlstein |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DG3BE0C0VkAC&pg=PA389 |title=Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus| year=2002 |page=389 |isbn=9780786744152 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> But by some other accounts, Johnson "was barely aware of Miller's existence." Miller's Eastern roots and Catholic faith balanced the ticket in some ways, however ideologically he was conservative like Goldwater. His relative obscurity—"he was better known for snipes at President Kennedy than for anything else"—gave birth to the refrain ''"Here's a riddle, it's a killer / Who the hell is William Miller?"''<ref name="Perlstein"/>
He was replaced as Chairman of the RNC by [[Dean Burch]], a Goldwater loyalist from Arizona.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" | '''Vice Presidential Balloting'''
|-
!Candidate||1st
|-
![[William E. Miller|Miller]]
|style="background:#fbb;"|1,305
|-
!Abstained
||3
|}
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'''Vice Presidential Balloting / 4th Day of Convention (July 16, 1964)'''
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File:1964RepublicanVicePresidentialNomination1stBallot.png|'''1st<br/>Vice Presidential Ballot'''
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==See also==
* [[History of the United States Republican Party]]
* [[List of Republican National Conventions]]
* [[
* [[1964 Democratic National Convention]]
* [[1964 United States presidential election]]
* [[Barry Goldwater 1964 presidential campaign
== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25840 Republican Party platform of 1964] at ''The American Presidency Project''
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25973 Goldwater nomination acceptance speech for President at RNC] (transcript) at ''The American Presidency Project''
* [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/1964-republican-convention.html%26+Archaeology%29 1964 Republican National Convention]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at [[Smithsonian Magazine]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFSiyueal7Q Video of Goldwater nomination acceptance speech for President at RNC from C-SPAN (via YouTube)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107121855/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFSiyueal7Q |date=2016-11-07 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170821084248/http://convert2mp3.net/en/index.php?p=tags Audio of Goldwater nomination acceptance speech for President at RNC]
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