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The party  nominated Vice President [[Richard M. Nixon]] to run in the presidential election against U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]], who subsequently handily won all of Louisiana's then ten [[electoral vote]]s.​

The party  nominated Vice President [[Richard M. Nixon]] to run in the presidential election against U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]], who subsequently handily won all of Louisiana's then ten [[electoral vote]]s.​

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Two days before the Republican convention in Chicago began its proceedings, Reese won a low-turnout senatorial closed primary victory over William Dane (1893-1966) of New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Dane&GSfn=William+&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=119327828&df=all&|title=William Dane|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=January 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/7995658/|title=Primary election preview|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=July 21, 1960|page=3|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> With just over 1,000 votes cast, Reese received 762; Dane, 278.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Republican primary returns, July 23, 1960.</ref> Reese then attended the convention and thereafter campaigned across the state in the fall. In [[Lake Charles]], he claimed that Senator Ellender had been lax in protecting military installations in Louisiana from being downsized or dismantled, with the impacted military services sent to bases in other states. "There has been inadequate representation of the state in these matters," Reese said.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/8302195/|title=The election of a Republican senator from Louisiana can reverse the trend of removal of federal installations from the state ...|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=October 26, 1960|page=37|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> Ellender had been critical of the investigations into communist infiltration of the U.S. government waged in the 1950s by U.S. Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] of [[Wisconsin]]. Reese even accused Ellender of being "soft on communism". The Democrat retorted that Reese's allegation came with "ill grace for the spokesman for the member of a party (the Eisenhower administration) which has permitted the establishment of a Red-dominated beach head ([[Cuba]]) only ninety miles from our shores to attack my record against the spread of communism."<ref>''The Alexandria Daily Town Talk'', November 5, 1960, p. 19.</ref>​

Two days before the Republican convention in Chicago began its proceedings, Reese won a low-turnout senatorial closed primary victory over William Dane (1893-1966) of New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Dane&GSfn=William+&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=119327828&df=all&|title=William Dane|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=January 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/7995658/|title=Primary election preview|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=July 21, 1960|page=3|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> With just over 1,000 votes cast, Reese received 762; Dane, 278.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Republican primary returns, July 23, 1960.</ref> Reese then attended the convention and thereafter campaigned across the state in the fall. In [[Lake Charles]], he claimed that Senator Ellender had been lax in protecting military installations in Louisiana from being downsized or dismantled, with the impacted military services sent to bases in other states. "There has been inadequate representation of the state in these matters," Reese said.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/8302195/|title=The election of a Republican senator from Louisiana can reverse the trend of removal of federal installations from the state ...|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=October 26, 1960|page=37|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref>  

 

Ellender had been critical of the investigations into communist infiltration of the U.S. government waged in the 1950s by U.S. Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] of [[Wisconsin]]. Reese even accused Ellender of being "soft on communism". The Democrat retorted that Reese's allegation came with "ill grace for the spokesman for the member of a party (the Eisenhower administration) which has permitted the establishment of a Red-dominated beach head ([[Cuba]]) only ninety miles from our shores to attack my record against the spread of communism."<ref>''The Alexandria Daily Town Talk'', November 5, 1960, p. 19.</ref>​

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In a Republican campaign rally in [[Lafayette]], national party nominee Richard Nixon claimed that "those who adopted the Democratic platform in the  [[Los Angeles]]convention  forfeited the right to ask millions of Democrats to be loyal to their party." Yet Nixon failed even to  introduce Reese as Ellender's opponent before the Lafayette gathering.<ref name=gopinla>Billy Hathorn, ''The Republican Party in Louisiana, 1920-1980'',  ([[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]]: [[Northwestern State University]], 1980), pp. 102-103.</ref>​

In a Republican campaign rally in [[Lafayette]], national party nominee Richard Nixon claimed that "those who adopted the Democratic platform in the  [[Los Angeles]]convention  forfeited the right to ask millions of Democrats to be loyal to their party." Yet Nixon failed even to  introduce Reese as Ellender's opponent before the Lafayette gathering.<ref name=gopinla>Billy Hathorn, ''The Republican Party in Louisiana, 1920-1980'',  ([[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]]: [[Northwestern State University]], 1980), pp. 102-103.</ref>​