July 16, 1964 - Barry Goldwater, the champion of a new American conservatism, was nominated for President last night by the 28th Republican National Convention.
The Arizona Senator, the 20th man in the line of Republican nominees that began with John C. Frémont and Abraham Lincoln, needed only one ballot to win the nomination and crush the moderate forces that had controlled his party for a quarter-century.
The only serious challenger was Governor William Scranton of Pennsylvania.
At the conclusion of the ballot, Scranton appeared on the platform to move for the unanimous nomination of Goldwater. The convention then adopted by acclamation a resolution making it so.
The count of the first ballot stood as follows for the two leading contenders:
Goldwater — 883
Scranton — 214
Goldwater did not appear at the convention, which adjourned at 11:11 p.m. Pacific daylight time. He will accept the nomination tomorrow, after his choice for Vice President, Representative William E. Miller of New York, is duly nominated.
There was never any contest from the moment Senator Everett Dirksen concluded his nominating speech for Goldwater and set off a wild demonstration that thundered through San Francisco’s Cow Palace for 29 minutes.
Scranton, who entered the race only a few weeks ago, nevertheless refused to withdraw before the ballot was taken. He was on the Cow Palace grounds with his wife, waiting in a trailer for the results.
As soon as the ballot was completed, however, Scranton came striding briskly down the long wooden ramp to the platform, his wife just behind him.
He extended congratulations to Goldwater and pledged: “I shall work for and fully support the ticket chosen by this convention.”
“Let it be clearly understood,” he said, “that this great Republican party is our historic house. This is our home. We have no intention of deserting it. We are still Republicans — and not very still ones either.”
Democrats, he said, should find no comfort in the hard Goldwater-Scranton battle. Republicans, Scranton said, “have hardly begun to give them the full attention that is coming to them.”
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