White was credited with organizing highly effective grassroots operations in the states that secured enough delegates for a surprising Goldwater victory on the first ballot at the 1964 Republican National Convention held in San Francisco . White 's team bested the better-funded Eastern Establishment campaigns of New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller , Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton , and several others
1964 Republican National Convention
1964 Republican National Convention
F. Clifton White