Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impression is that many of those people signing the petition condemning Harvard students' breach of decorum during the visit of Secretary McNamara are doing so on grounds of etiquette and ignoring the more basic political issues. Justifications for extremist behavior, even of the mild sort witnessed at Harvard, are often very difficult to understand from the standpoint of an established society or an established policy. For people sincerely opposed to the war in Vietnam on reasoned grounds, I see three justifications for the treatment accorded McNamara...
Brown, in consequence, has recast his campaign tactics, no longer harps on the charge that Reagan is a right-wing extremist. Instead, the Governor is emphasizing Reagan's lack of administrative experience. Reagan, in turn, is convinced that Californians are simply bored with Brown's bland, avuncular personality and is now campaigning cautiously on the assumption, as one of his top advisers puts it, that "we're ahead -let's not blow...
...Brown has said that it is his job to convince California voters that Reagan is a right-wing extremist, and Brown's staff has unearthed and made public every right-wing statement Reagan has ever made...
...Brown's campaign staff has had a field day unearthing and publishing almost every far-out statement that Reagan has ever uttered-and there have been quite a few. A red-bordered pamphlet titled Ronald Reagan: Extremist Collaborator has been widely distributed and lays out-with sources footnoted-various Reagan quotes along with the names of "Fright-Wing" cash contributors and such advisers as Schick Razor President Patrick J. Frawley and Henry Salvatori, co-chairman of Reagan's finance committee and executive committee, who has been closely affiliated with such way-right causes as Project Alert...
Governor Brown himself has left nothing to the imagination in smearing Reagan with the stain of extremism. At a Los Angeles fund-raising banquet last week, the Governor shouted: "If Ronald Reagan ever becomes Governor of California, the extremist movement in America would have a new lease on life. Reagan is Barry Goldwater's standin. He's appealing to people's fears and anxieties...