1960 Republican National Convention
{{Short description|Political convention of the Republican Party}}
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{{Infobox National Political Convention
| year = 1960
| party = Republican
| image = RP1960.png
| image_size = 125
| image2 = RV1960.png
| image_size2 = 125
| caption = Nominees
Nixon and Lodge
| date = July 25–28, 1960
| venue = International Amphitheatre
| city = Chicago
| presidential_nominee = Richard M. Nixon
| presidential_nominee_state = California
| vice_presidential_nominee = Henry C. Lodge Jr.
| vice_presidential_nominee_state = Massachusetts
| previous_year = 1956
| next_year = 1964
}}
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File:1960 RNC guest ticket.jpg Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
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The 1960 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois, from July 25 to July 28, 1960, at the International Amphitheatre. It was the 14th and most recent time overall that Chicago hosted the Republican National Convention, more times than any other city.
The convention nominated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for president and former Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts for vice president.
Presidential nomination
= Presidential candidates =
File:Richard Nixon presidential portrait (cropped).jpg|Vice President
Richard Nixon
of California
Image:Goldwater for President (cropped).jpg|Senator
Barry Goldwater
of Arizona
(Declined Consideration)
By the time the Republican convention opened, Nixon had no opponents for the nomination. The highlight of the convention was the speech by U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona removing himself from the race, in which he called on conservatives to "take back" the party. Nixon won easily, earning 1,321 votes to 10 for Goldwater.{{Cite web |url=http://www.chicagohs.org/history/politics/1960.html |title=History Files - Parades, Protests and Politics |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719231915/http://www.chicagohs.org/history/politics/1960.html |archive-date=2008-07-19 |url-status=dead }} At the convention, Nixon promised that he would visit every state during his campaign.{{cite web|title=Richard Nixon: Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in Chicago|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25974|website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu}}
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" | Presidential Balloting |
| Candidate||1st |
|---|
| Nixon
|style="background:#fbb;"|1,321 |
| Goldwater
|style="background:#fdd;"|10 |
Presidential Balloting / 3rd Day of Convention (July 27, 1960)
File:1960RepublicanPresidentialNomination1stBallot.png|1st Presidential Ballot
Vice Presidential nomination
{{main|1960 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection}}
= Vice Presidential candidates =
Image:Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (R-MA) (cropped).jpg|UN Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
of Massachusetts
Image:Thruston B Morton.jpg|Senator
Thruston B. Morton
of Kentucky
Image:Walter Judd.jpg|Representative
Walter Judd
of Minnesota
Image:80-G-K-14927 Robert B. Anderson.jpg|Treasury Secretary
Robert B. Anderson
of Texas
Image:PrescottBush.jpg|Senator
Prescott Bush
of Connecticut
Image:Senator Everett Dirksen.jpg|Senate Minority Leader
Everett Dirksen
of Illinois
Image:Arthur S. Flemming.jpg|HEW Secretary
Arthur Flemming
of Ohio
Image:Gerald Ford presidential portrait (cropped).jpg|Representative
Gerald Ford
of Michigan
Image:Jpmitchell.jpg|Labor Secretary
James P. Mitchell
of New Jersey
Image:Nelson Rockefeller 1960 (cropped).jpg|Governor
Nelson Rockefeller
of New York
Image:SenHughScott.jpg|Senator
Hugh Scott
of Pennsylvania
Image:Interior Secretary Fred Seaton.jpg|Interior Secretary
Fred A. Seaton
of Nebraska
Image:William G. Stratton (Illinois Blue Book Portrait 1959-1960).jpg|Governor
William Stratton
of Illinois
Image:Philip H. Willkie speaking to the press.jpg|Former State Representative
Philip Willkie
of Indiana
After winning the presidential nomination, Nixon considered several candidates for the vice presidential nomination. Incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower strongly supported Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.{{cite book|last1=Donaldson|first1=Gary|title=The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960|date=2007|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|pages=90–91|isbn=9780742548008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pxolK9z1zh0C&q=nixon+lodge+1960|access-date=6 October 2015}} Though Lodge was not viewed by Republicans as a charismatic speaker, his foreign policy experience as well as his longtime Republican Party ties as a descendant of the Lodge family made him an appealing candidate.
Lodge was unpopular with the conservative wing of the party, who regarded him as a Northeastern moderate. As a result of the conservatives' coolness toward Lodge, Nixon strongly considered conservative Minnesota Representative Walter Judd and U.S. Senator Thruston Morton of Kentucky, an establishment Republican who was more moderate than Judd but had a high profile as chairman of the Republican National Committee.{{cite book|last1=Pietrusza|first1=David|title=1960: LBJ Vs. JFK Vs. Nixon : the Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies|date=2008|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company|pages=225–230|isbn=9781402761140|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gq4c9XDOSxQC&q=nixon+lodge+1960|access-date=6 October 2015}}
Other candidates Nixon may have considered include:
- Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona (Would be nominated for President in 1964)
- Charles A. Halleck, U.S. House Minority Leader from Indiana
- Neil H. McElroy, former Secretary of Defense from Ohio
- Charles H. Percy, businessman from Illinois
- William P. Rogers, U.S. Attorney General from Maryland
After deciding on Lodge, Nixon participated in a closed session with party leaders, who concurred with his preference. After the session, Nixon announced his choice publicly, and the convention ratified it.
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" | Vice Presidential Balloting |
| Candidate||1st |
|---|
| Lodge
|style="background:#fbb;"|1,330 |
| Not Voting
|1 |
Vice Presidential Balloting / 4th Day of Convention (July 28, 1960)
File:1960RepublicanVicePresidentialNomination1stBallot.png|1st
Vice Presidential Ballot
General election
The Nixon-Lodge ticket lost the 1960 election to the Democratic ticket of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25974 Republican Party platform of 1960] at The American Presidency Project
- [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75626 Nixon nomination acceptance speech for President at RNC] (transcript) at The American Presidency Project
- [https://archive.org/details/1960-07-25_republican_convention_highlights Universal newsreel footage of the convention]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUsYvasdxD4 Video of Nixon nomination acceptance speech for President at RNC from C-SPAN (via YouTube)]
- [http://convert2mp3.net/en/index.php?p=tags&id=youtube_iUsYvasdxD4&key=rjmsBMRLHXRM Audio of Nixon nomination acceptance speech for President at RNC]{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crdUcEqOjpo Video of Lodge nomination acceptance speech for Vice President at RNC from C-SPAN (via YouTube)]
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