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i ' ' - eastward across industrial states Demands for the specialist grew with the growing role of mass media in political camWhile anyone may paigns flatter himself that he can write a campaign speech or organize a precinct the purchase and production of political television programs and measurement -- a Need With - - You Don't Thing w Power upholstering) As lee i 1 For the Mowors Furnituro i SPOT CASH GET KETCHUM'S ShopTools Repair Hand t s it Os AnOolti Neves SetYlcas I Post in managementa ' GOP oper- - -- spread major the t ' r erendum questions and the absence of effective party organizations created a demand for someone who could orga- volun- nize public relations teer workers research finances and all the other elements of an issue—or office— campaign From California the process the ta ' 1 1930s proliferation f as : The same diffusion principle that has altered the Republican financial base has affected its supply of managerial talent One reason for this is the rise of professional political Management specialists available for hire to the highest bidder The phenomenon had its start and its early success in in the --- the 1' ' - money Diffusion of Talent cam- tixtin — - to access how to get it Increasingly 1 tributors Whatever form the 1968 struggle takes there is no reason to suppose that its outcome will be decided by paign (much more so than in the general election) clearly there is no small group of is - in 1968 g there r--t The Republican Party itself has been liberated from whatever degree of control the small group of financial angels Impos ed so far as financing of the presidential campaign is concerned The continued increase in numbers of in resmall contributions solicitadirect mail to sponse tions and the success of the televised appeals during presidential campaigns frees the party from any veto power over a nominee by a specific number of its principal con- l the a nominee To the contrary Such available to -- the large individual contributor is still important of for his pre- - backing appears Nixon Reagan and Romney to say nothing of Percy While In adequate financial backing — -- Ito opinion they are supposed to influence are obviously not work for an amateur to think CONVENIENT CHRISTMAS LAYAWAY at I 1111Pliki — every reason the presidenin WA gain power tial nomination personality low boiling point and a fear of public controversy that is rare in one so long in politics — he would probably have been national chairman long before 1965 Eisenhower and Nixon both held him in high esteem and Nixon more than once tied to persuade him to take over the So job incidentally did Barry Goldwater two years ANA- Committee on Political Education) handbooks and copying their techniques Corporations and chambers of commerce began recruiting businessmen especially junior for executives "poll t !cal I "citizenawl training" The theme: ship" classes power goes to those who learn (AFL-CI- Mom -- - spersancal ocrat Frank Lausche (former governor and now senator) and despite Goldwater Had it not been for Bliss's personal attributes — the nervousness of manner prickly A 4 "- A NEXT: The Ides Men lawyer-politicia- r x licCarennsul beneglyanalsatrumaxedingReptrib-- waton ' ' full-tim- Thus the Republican Party today has not a single dominant set of political organizers but chisters of independent Lcampaign organizing talents Increasing- - : is for m etnimoef Itylietnlitettoetnidlezecy ': from full 1 work for the part)L to the I status of Independent contrae- i t ' toN available for hire - l111 an' "Dad California The di power is reflected directly in internal Republican politics perhaps most dramatically in the inability of Nelson Rockefeller symbolic bugabo6 of right-to-wor- k appreciated UP - -a teegn And Bliss's record was compiled despite an unhappy adventure with the issue in 1958 despite an unbeatable conservative Dem - 'is 1 DistHbutett by put Orld pro- Beyond such fessional managers — of whom there are perhaps two dawn in the country — thetv are many experienced who give all or a largo part of their time to Ousters of Talents COPE Copksil 44 t thiS etttygtry dependent operator out Of a small office near New York's Grand Central Station Travis Cross former press secretary to l‘lark Hatfield and now a Romney aide runs his own outfit from Salem Ore seen mot e steadily professional operation nut by the labor unions ? t ' 4 ) t Ap lb 411h7 Ilf 07'4'11-- ' 2 mailing lists Coldwater's personal appeal vastly expanded the list of contributors and by the time Bliss took over the Republican National Commit- - In a ' (' - i in In the postwar years de4 spite the temporary relief provided by Cam Eisenhower's presidential victories Republicans incressingly confronted a superior democratic organization in the key slates and a more significant even I -- particularly in the South the postWorld War II period The new suburbs challenged the political tech Moos of both parties but at In the same tittle provided the form of the submban housewife the largest available supply of volunteer manpower either party had ever areas itself ' 7------- 1962 Old I ? 4 ' ' - purchased a was election Bliss's defeat albeit a disguised one cadre's for the Goldwater control of hope for long-terthe party organization But it was not a clear-cu-t victory for any other faction of the party All the new chairman had was a license to walk the tightrope rivalries among conflicting while trying to rebuild the shattered hulk of the Grand I ) spread of Industry into rural The second and related reason for the diffusion Of GOP talent Is tho managerial increasing profesionalization of the party organilation are busy fighting' Mr Wilson! Dad aining member" drive donors using bought a motorcycle an' it or Mom has gotta GO!" - -- l in In fact It is the chairman Its funds in gifts of $10 or less and his staff who must seize — the first time this had hapthe reins of power for the pened In American party hiscommittee in its corporate - tory sense is a creature of intrinsic No longer in either party is are two there a single man or even a There weakness a man and a "group of willful men" with a members woman from each state monopoly on the funds and territory and the District of the finesse needed to nomielected normally Columbia nate a president Instead r for terms and more there are clusters of such "fat frequently chosen from the c a t s" a nd "kingmakers" ranks of the elder statesmen across the country for whont or big contributors than from the lure of power of profit or the state's current political even the chance to put their Ideas into practice is all the leadership inducement a candidate need Although the National Comoffer them Indeed in the Rewith its infrequent mittee 1964 the (normally Only publican Party in twice a year for two days at money men and managers a time) and its cumbersome came seeking the candidate size is virtually impotent the who eventually was nomichairman's job is a post of nated potential influence and there- Persistent Myth fore a prize worth fighting No myth for hand baout the in persistent The pressures that resulted than that of Republican Party in Bliss's election in early Its control by a handful of 1915 to succeed Barry GoldEastern bankers and investDean Burch water's ment men and their allies in lay bare oicre of the internal government and the press of the Repubpower The monopoly power of the lican Party big Eastern contributors and their allies in the GOP has Defeat for Goldwaterites Party curious way Ray Bliss was uniquely fitted for the task He had achieved a re- markable record in Ohio By the time he yielded the reins after 15 years as state chairman the Ohio Republicans had outscored the Derriocrats 51 to 20 on statewide races (including three of four presidential elections) 125 to 59 In congressional battles 694 to 403 in Assembly races and 140 to 87 in State Senate contests Overcame Obstacles nit ss full-tim- year-roun- presidential election years In ar e such prominent Republicans as Leonard W Hall flu! pert J McIntosh Charles K !‘icWhorter Robert F Ellsworth anti Sherman Unger But at any rate the avallaMO of so many potential indicates that ”kingmakers7 the aspirants for the 19C8 Republican presidential nontina thin will not lack for manage rial skill any more than they will lack for ITIOIWY Stewart Spencer and Roberts whose firm engineered the Ronald Reagan campaign in Mil started in California Young Republican p olitics F Clifton White a product of the late years of the Dewey organization skill fully directed the Goldwater in campaign preconvention 19il4 and now works as an in- - tiled started heat professionally quarters on the state county aml city levels the party's Supplementing rising professionalism was the growth of suburbia and the age : i National a "sust- meetings - 1 ' : four-yea- - It-- m s' - - 1 X : i 1 fl-a- a : : -- -- for Chairman Must Lead — ( 4-1- - Appeal Committee had finance to By Hank Ketcham Dennis the Menace d I candidates at Increasingly all levels turned to advertising agencies commercial survey firms professional fundraisers and political organizers or companies offering all of these services in a pack- In The proposal one was serious enough that Bliss convassed the leading Republihe cans ivhon support thought essential for success In the job Gov Nelson ltockeMier then still on the political rise told Bliss that if he wantNi to be chairman he should simply announce his at interest Deeply offende-what he took to be a suggestion that he was acting out of personal ambition the Ohio leader withdrew his name froth consideralion and the job went to William Miller much to Rockefeller's chagrin Bliss set out to duplicate his organizational systent at the national level He inherited a small cash balance (thanks to an election eve surge of contributions to Goldwater that could not be spent (and a more valuable asset in the roster of small contributors 4 blocks away ' has him rejected Sought Support By Stephen Hess and David S Bmder While under our fragmented system of government no individual is unmistakably the leader of the opposition party 1965-6In the period the share Of the burden of leadership carried by the chairman of the Republican National Committee Ray C Bliss was larger than anyone else's What makes this surprising Is that legally the Republican National Committee like its I he 1964) Harper I ' I r 1961 '28 - 1 Il it F 14 ' '' Parking! 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