Hello and welcome to Whistle Stop, a podcast of campaign curiosities. I'm John Dickerson of Face the Nation.

You've heard of the Never Trump movement, haven't you? Republicans are trying to mount a planned and coordinated effort to undermine Donald Trump's candidacy as it rolls along winning primary after primary. There aren't many templates for that strategy. 1964 is one, though when moderate Republicans band together and fought to stop Barry Goldwater,

it didn't work out very well.

And it seems like that's exactly what the never-Trump conservatives are doing,

though they are different in one fundamental way.

The stop Goldwater effort was a total failure.

Those trying to stop Donald Trump are falling even short of that.

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of the Republican convention in June of 1964 at the Cow Palace, an aging concrete quonset hut looking thing

outside of San Francisco. Nelson Rockefeller is standing beneath an enormous portrait of Abraham Lincoln

preparing to address a raucous crowd who he is sure doesn't like him at all, and which he has come

to irritate further with a speech challenging Republicans to repudiate extremism and racism.

These are people who have nothing in common with Americanism. The Republican Party must repudiate

these people. You can hear the crowd at the end booing him, but then also chanting, we want Barry.

The New York Governor Rockefeller was repeatedly interrupted by booze.

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