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                                                                                            I see that Barry Goldwater is now, in your opinion, a


                                                                                             man of courage and integrity. …It seems to me that

                                                                                            to support him is to reject the ideals and principles for


                                                                                                 which the Rockefeller name has always stood.
                                                                                                                                                      ”
                                                                                                 Your doing so is one of the most disappointing


                                                                                                     things which has ever happened to me.


                                                                                                  – Jack Roosevelt Robinson, in a letter to

                                                                                            Governor Nelson Rockefeller after he endorsed


                                                                                                     Barry Goldwater, October 7, 1964





























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