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...Goldwater of Arizona (five electoral votes) won a presidential nomination, and so did Alf Landon of Kansas (nine electoral votes in 1936). Goldwater, of course, had some special things going for him. He had been a Senator with a national platform, and for eleven years he used it to expound a distinctive philosophy that became totally identified with his name and appealed powerfully to the conservative wing of the G.O.P. His chairmanship of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee for six years gave him virtually unlimited access to the banquets and bankrolls of party members all over the country...
...food and drink. Once, for a lunch in his honor at Le Berkeley restaurant in Paris, the maître d'hôtel outdid himself with a magnificent souffle. Harry was first to dig into the souffle, then stopped his laden fork in mid-air to expound some point that lasted for 20 minutes, while the souffle sagged and expired, and the agonized maître d'hôtel at last, without a word, snatched up the flattened remains and fled to the kitchen...
Reagan, 55, served his audience the Hollywood hors d'oeuvres that they expected. Watching his old movies on the late show, he said, "is like looking at a son you never knew you had." Then he set out to expound his political views. "I've never advocated selling the Post Office or abolishing social security," Reagan declared, adding that "Americans are united in their determination that no area of human need be ignored." However, he reasoned, "the big question is not whether-but how, and at what cost-these problems will be solved. I respectfully suggest...
...imperatives that apply always and everywhere to men faced with an ethical decision. To the modern-day existentialist, all guidelines are irrelevant; he argues that any authentic decision must arise spontaneously from man's inner sense of what the moment demands. To day, a number of Christian theologians expound a third way-halfway between the two previous paths-which they call "situation" or "contextual" ethics...
Scott's superb sense of his audience and the self-satirical aspect of his humor not only save the senator from being a windbag, but enable him to establish an intimacy with his listeners. In small groups, he will expound on some subject for a while, suddenly realize that he is beginning to prattle, and punctuate his monologue with a quick self-deflating dig that endears him to his audience. Answering a question at one informal gathering, he waxed almost poetic at some length about the glories of the Senate, finishing with the words, "and there is no other group...