Editing Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (section)

== 1964 presidential candidacy ==
{{Main|1964 Republican Party presidential primaries}}
[[File:1964RepublicanPresidentialPrimaries.svg|thumb|300px|Republican primaries results by state
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{{legend|#423121|[[John W. Byrnes]]}}
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{{legend|#73638c|Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.}}
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{{legend|#668c63|[[James A. Rhodes]]}}
{{legend|#5d73e5|[[Nelson Rockefeller]]}}
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Lodge won three primaries as a "write-in" candidate without making any public appearances.]]

Despite their defeat in 1960, neither Nixon's nor Lodge's national profiles were damaged, with both being speculated candidates for the 1964 presidential election. Lodge made the [[Gallup's most admired man and woman poll|"Most Admired Men" list]] for 1962 and led major candidates such as [[George W. Romney|George Romney]] and [[Nelson Rockefeller]] in Republican presidential polling.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31361706/lodge_1/ |title=Poll Shows Kennedy Again Most Admired |date=January 1, 1963 |work=The Boston Globe  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514025726/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31361706/lodge_1/ |archive-date=May 14, 2019 |url-status=live |page=36 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31392250/lodge_2/ |title=Rockefeller Leads GOP Voter Survey |date=January 13, 1963 |work=The Tampa Tribune |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514030726/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31392250/lodge_2/ |archive-date=May 14, 2019 |url-status=live |page=58 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31392644/lodge_5/ |title=Curtis and Graham Lead GOP Poll For Governor's Seat |date=June 22, 1963 |work=The North Adams Transcript  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514031458/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31392644/lodge_5/ |archive-date=May 14, 2019 |url-status=live |page=3 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

In 1962 after helping campaign for his son [[George C. Lodge]] in the [[1962 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts|Senate race]] Paul Grindle, the nephew of Senator [[Leverett Saltonstall]] who had filled Lodge's seat after his resignation to join World War II, along with Sally Saltonstall, Caroline Williams, and David Goldberg opened a Lodge for President office in Boston, but in 1964 was forced to shut down after failing to prove any affiliation with Lodge. However, Grindle relocated to Concord, New Hampshire. The organization acquired a mailing list of 96,000 Republican voters which successfully established a base for Lodge in New Hampshire. Footage of former President Eisenhower endorsing Lodge for vice president in 1960 was used in TV commercials and portrayed as Eisenhower endorsing Lodge for president. Three days before the March 10 New Hampshire primary Goldwater chose to stop campaigning in the state as he predicted a victory for himself with a substantial number of votes for Lodge.<ref>{{cite news|title=How Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Won the 1964 New Hampshire Primary Without Lifting a Finger |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/02/henry-cabot-lodge-jr-won-the-1964-new-hampshire-primary-as-a-write-in-candidate.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517020332/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/02/henry-cabot-lodge-jr-won-the-1964-new-hampshire-primary-as-a-write-in-candidate.html|archive-date=May 17, 2019}}</ref>

In 1964, Lodge, while still Ambassador to South Vietnam, was the surprise [[write-in candidate|write-in]] victor in the Republican [[New Hampshire primary]], defeating declared presidential candidates [[Barry Goldwater]] and [[Nelson Rockefeller]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=8aaaf95a-7a23-495b-8054-755ab7cdfa1f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070802202137/http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=8aaaf95a-7a23-495b-8054-755ab7cdfa1f|title=Union-Leader: Lodge's write-in victory|archive-date=August 2, 2007}}</ref> His entire campaign was organized by a small band of political amateurs working independently of the ambassador, who, believing they had little hope of winning him any delegates, did nothing to aid their efforts. However, when they scored the New Hampshire upset, Lodge, along with the press and Republican party leaders, suddenly began to seriously consider his candidacy. Many observers remarked on the situation's similarity to 1952, when Eisenhower had unexpectedly defeated Senator [[Robert A. Taft]], then leader of the Republican Party's conservative faction. However, Lodge (who refused to become an open candidate) did not fare as well in later primaries, and Goldwater ultimately won the presidential nomination.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacyamericana.com/Draft-Lodge_p_2031.html|title=Draft Lodge|website=Legacy Americana|access-date=October 1, 2018|archive-date=September 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926001626/http://www.legacyamericana.com/Draft-Lodge_p_2031.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Like most liberal Republicans, Lodge opposed Goldwater, particularly his proposal to realign the Democratic and Republican parties into Liberal and Conservative parties, calling it "abhorrent", and felt that nobody should oppose the aid of the federal government in helping Americans. At one point during the convention, Lodge was confronted by a staunch Goldwater supporter who called him terrible for opposing Goldwater. In reply, Lodge said: "You're terrible, too."<ref>"Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus", Rick Perlstein, 2009</ref><ref>"Lodge Denounces Party Realigning; 'Totally abhorrent', he says of Goldwater's proposal", ''The New York Times'', November 16, 1964.</ref>