Denison Kitchel was a lawyer from Phoenix, Arizona, who was an influential advisor to and the campaign manager of Republican Barry M Goldwater in the 1964 US presidential campaign against the Democrat Lyndon B Johnson.
15 Facts About Denison Kitchel
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In 1930, Denison Kitchel graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Denison Kitchel was considered an authority on constitutional, labor, and international law.
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Naomi Denison Kitchel, who attended Stanford University, was the first woman trustee of the Phoenix Art Museum, the founding chairman of Planned Parenthood in Phoenix, and a member of the National Federation of Republican Women.
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Denison Kitchel served for three years in England in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II and was discharged as a lieutenant colonel.
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The Denison Kitchel-Goldwater friendship began in 1935, when Goldwater was a young department-store executive in Phoenix.
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In 1952, Denison Kitchel managed the first of Goldwater's five successful, nonconsecutive campaigns for the United States Senate.
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Denison Kitchel encouraged Goldwater's enthusiasm for the NATO and convinced the presidential candidate to support the unanimous 1954 United States Supreme Court decision Brown v Board of Education, which led to the use of federal troops in 1957 in a test case to compel school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Denison Kitchel once said that he had an active distaste for campaigning, or "kissing babies", as he called such demands.
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However, Denison Kitchel exerted leadership regarding issues, strategies, and drafting policy statements.
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Denison Kitchel wrote Goldwater's Senate speech, which explained his then opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, on constitutional and libertarian grounds.
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From 1957 to 1963, Denison Kitchel was general counsel for the Arizona Republican Party.
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In 1958, when Goldwater was first reelected to the Senate, Denison Kitchel wrote the state party platform in which he defined his conservative philosophy in eight short paragraphs, one of which reads:.
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Years later Denison Kitchel revealed that he and Goldwater spent little time discussing a potential Goldwater Cabinet, considering the odds against the Republican nominee.
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Denison Kitchel penned two books, Too Grave a Risk, an examination of the International Court of Justice and the chasm in the justice systems of most member nations compared to the United States, and The Truth About the Panama Canal, a study of the consequences of agreements between the United States and the Republic of Panama over the control of the Panama Canal waterway.