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One major Goldwater worry is that Senior Republican Dwight Eisenhower is still mad at him for having cracked that "one Eisenhower in a decade is enough" when asked what he thought about Milton Eisenhower as a presidential possibility. Goldwater is trying to set things right with Ike. He has written Bryce Harlow, a key pipeline to Eisenhower, explaining that the remark was made in the context of the Kennedy dynasty issue, that he actually said the American people would not take another Kennedy after Jack, just as one Eisenhower in a decade was enough. Also, Goldwater Worker John Tower recently went to Gettysburg for a friendly chat, and Goldwater himself hopes to visit Ike soon.
Aware that he will be under increasingly close scrutiny, Goldwater has scheduled private seminars to bring himself up to date on such subjects as U.S. policy in Eastern Europe. He has rented an electronic computer, and is feeding all his comments on major issues into it so he will not unwittingly contradict himself. "Consistency is not necessarily a virtue," he says, "but I haven't changed my stand on any fundamental issue and I don't intend to."
ROCKEFELLER: The Dark Days "How do you tell a corpse he's a corpse?" ponders a G.O.P. Governor who is friendly to Rocky. So remote are Rockefeller's chances that some of his previous backers are now urging him to withdraw from presidential contention completely, thereby opening the way for another progressive candidate.
But Rocky refuses to play dead. He went off on a twelve-day tour of Europe, met with headline-making figures like Pope Paul VI, France's President Charles de Gaulle, German Chancellor-designate Ludwig Erhard and British Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson. He still intends to enter the New Hampshire, California, and possibly the West Virginia primaries, and wage a person-to-person campaign in the style of the late Estes Kefauver. It is generally conceded that he is badly trailing Goldwater in all three states; in California, for example, polls give him 35% of Republican votes against 65% for Goldwater. It would be suicidal for Rocky to run against Goldwater in the Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska and South Dakota primaries. In the Ohio primary, he would presumably run up against Governor Rhodes; in Wisconsin, Representative John Byrnes figures to be a favorite-son candidate. Oregon is an unpredictable free-for-all, for as many as a dozen people often wind up on the primary ballot, whether they want to be there or not.
Rocky's, meteoric descent stems only in part from his remarriage last May. Many Republican leaders think he made an even more serious political mistake with his furious denunciation of the "radical right" in July. Among other things, this gave Barry a golden opportunity to go around preaching party unity. In his dark days, Rocky is having trouble finding a campaign manager with national status. He got a flat no from bulky Len Hall, Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 campaign-train manager, now is trying to enlist ex-G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn, a Dartmouth classmate.