Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shocked beyond words that Senator Dominick in his convention speech opposing the anti-Bircher platform amendment failed to point out that he was using phony documentation. Not everyone knows that the New York Times was founded in 1851; therefore his "1765" Times "editorial" denouncing Patrick Henry as an "extremist" was a figment of Dominick's own dubious imagination. Such essentially deceitful tactics smack of McCarthy. What a frightful forecast of Goldwater campaign methods...
...large number of them--most have been Republicans all their lives--will support President Johnson against the challenge of a philosophy they find alien to their progressive brand of Republicanism. They are outwardly offended by Goldwater's apparent appeal to the "white backlash" vote and to the extremist groups of the far right...
...Senator Goldwater's supporters claim that their candidate is the only one who can give the voters a real choice in November. I suggest that a choice between the President of the U.S. and an irresponsible extremist is no choice at all. The only way the voters can have a real choice is if a moderate Republican is nominated at San Francisco...
...want to admit it to the pollsters. The opposition succeeded in tying the tin can of extremism to Goldwater's tail, and so a vote for Goldwater was in danger of being considered a vote for extremism. And what respectable Republican businessman wants to be an extremist-much less admit it openly...
...everyone was scrambling to climb aboard the bandwagon. Union after union once dominated by the Communist-run General Labor Command began buying newspaper ads cheering the "victory of the glorious forces." One of the most radical divisions of Goulart's own Labor Party vowed to throw out "all extremist elements." By a 75 to 0 vote, the Minas Gerais state legislature kicked out three extremist congressmen; in Natal, the city council voted 25 to 0 to impeach their leftist mayor despite army suggestions that three or four dissenting votes would make it look better...