¹ It was months later (actually not until the start of the election campaign itself) before the Goldwater campaign managers came up with the gloss that might have defined him out of his later trouble. If, indeed, said his campaign managers, Goldwater had used the word “commanders,” he had not meant divisional or field commanders—he had meant the succession of NATO “commanders in chief”; he had used the plural to describe the succession of Eisenhower, Ridgway, Gruenther, Norstad and Lemnitzer, since 1950.