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GETTING THE RIGHT MEN FOR THE RIGHT JOBS, DEPT.: “The Administration has announced a policy of hiring, where possible, mentally retarded persons for federal employment.”—A. P.

There is much speculation going on, within and outside the Goldwater camp, on the question whether Goldwater should, or will, gently dissociate himself from the organized Right. The argument by Goldwater’s friends within the Right is: a Presidential candidate must not appear to be a factionalist, hence the unwisdom of organizational right-wing ties. The argument by Goldwater’s enemies: considering that he appears to have the strongest chance of winning the Republican nomination, he must not be a sectarian candidate, and as greater responsibility looms (they predict), he will shed the ideologists and behave more responsibly. By coincidence, the arguments of the two camps converge into a single set of practical recommendations. And Goldwater is of course left with the problem: how to effect a dissociation without abandoning his own political position.

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GETTING THE RIGHT MEN FOR THE RIGHT JOBS, DEPT.: “The Administration has announced a policy of hiring, where possible, mentally retarded persons for federal employment.”—A. P.

There is much speculation going on, within and outside the Goldwater camp, on the question whether Goldwater should, or will, gently dissociate himself from the organized Right. The argument by Goldwater’s friends within the Right is: a Presidential candidate must not appear to be a factionalist, hence the unwisdom of organizational right-wing ties. The argument by Goldwater’s enemies: considering that he appears to have the strongest chance of winning the Republican nomination, he must not be a sectarian candidate, and as greater responsibility looms (they predict), he will shed the ideologists and behave more responsibly. By coincidence, the arguments of the two camps converge into a single set of practical recommendations. And Goldwater is of course left with the problem: how to effect a dissociation without abandoning his own political position.