Word: goldwaterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While expecting to receive much less of the nonwhite vote in 1968 than he did in 1960 (32%), Nixon at the same time hopes to do a little better than Barry Goldwater's minuscule 6%. "We may get 7%," says one adviser, "and we'll be lucky if...
Good Avocation. His ability to evoke the good old days and look eagerly to the year 2000, and to make the mix sound coherent, points up his talent for accommodation, which is one explanation for Nixon's return from political limbo. The G.O.P.'s liberals can live with him. He...
Agnew's defection to Nixon was all but official before the convention started. Meanwhile, though, Nixon men were compelled to mount a defense operation among the Southern delegations. Reagan had been making inroads in Alabama, North Carolina and Texas particularly, and this trend could not be allowed to go on...
Overwhelmed. The shifting group of conferees contained its own roster of notables: Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Billy Graham, Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Karl Mundt, Party Chairman Ray Bliss. Finally, after a brief break for a nap and a breakfast of cold cereal, Nixon convened still another meeting. By...
Thinking Twice. In public, however, all faces were smiling, and no one would be able to accuse the losers of disloyalty -probably the most damaging charge that has been made against Rockefeller this year. Both can still look ahead. Unlike Barry Goldwater, who let his Senate term expire so that...