Nelson A. Rockefeller (R.N.Y.), was nearly denied admission last night to a New England Mock Republican National Convention to be held at Wellesley today. After a bitter debate the convention's ...

Barry Goldwater championed “extremism in defense of liberty” in his acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican National Convention, a reporter – shocked that he wasn’t toning down his ...

Other G.O.P. congressional leaders agreed. On the road back from the 1964 Republican National Convention, many party chieftains have exorcised the bugaboo of “extremism.” Yet when the party ...