CBS News Republican Convention excerpt - 1964-07-15

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[0:00] The galleries, I don't know. I'd like to

[0:02] know the stories of the galleries and

[0:03] the tickets because

[0:05] the galleries seem almost solidly

[0:07] Goldwater.

[0:08] But that is not normally so when tickets

[0:10] are distributed in the normal way.

[0:12] The distribution of the tickets,

[0:14] however, Eric, was handled through state

[0:17] delegations. This was the This was how

[0:19] it was supposed to be handled. Each

[0:21] state was delegated a proportion of the

[0:23] gallery tickets and if you carry through

[0:26] the same convention situation, that

[0:28] means 2/3 of the gallery would be

[0:30] I think that's probably about the way it

[0:32] would work out anyway, yes. The The

[0:34] stories are still coming in on the

[0:35] newswires of the counterfeiting of

[0:37] tickets.

[0:38] As well as the reporting from outside.

[0:41] But

[0:42] I don't think the implication is that

[0:44] either political side here engaged in

[0:46] it. It's maybe just scalpers trying to

[0:48] make a fast buck.

[0:49] Yes, there was somebody out there trying

[0:51] to sell them, I gather.

[0:52] I think so.

[0:54] Now, speaking now and one of the

[0:56] seconding speeches for

[0:58] Governor Rockefeller is going to

[1:00] Washington. Uh

[1:02] Illinois, twice defeated Republican

[1:04] candidate for Congress.

[1:07] It seems called indeed

[1:09] to be heard

[1:11] in a Republican Party, the party of

[1:14] Lincoln.

[1:15] This party was born of the conviction

[1:19] that the federal government had a

[1:21] definite and a decisive role to play in

[1:24] securing the protection of the rights of

[1:27] the individual American.

[1:31] It was to foster

[1:34] federal action

[1:35] to prevent the spread of slavery

[1:38] into new areas

[1:41] that the Republican Party first came

[1:43] into existence.

[1:46] The Emancipation

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