Nation: The Curious Crew

Republican Goldwater decided some time ago that his most effective issue was national "immorality" under Democratic Administrations. Thus, although the Jenkins case underlined the issue, it did not change Barry's tone. The only difference was that when he spoke—as he had been speaking for weeks—about the "curious crew" in the White House, he got a greater audience response.

Bobby Baker's name remained the one that Barry mentioned most often and most scornfully. Early in the week, while he was addressing some 15,000 people in downtown Des Moines, Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper handed him a slip of paper. Written on it was...

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