Word: goldwaterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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1,189 PSYCHIATRISTS SAY GOLD WATER IS PSYCHOLOGICALLY UNFIT TO BE PRESIDENT! That determinedly flamboyant headline dressed the cover of Fact magazine one month before the presidential election of 1964. The entire issue was an examination of the "unconscious of a conservative," based largely on answers to a questionnaire sent...
The unprofessional-not to say unbalanced-nature of such remarks brought immediate condemnation from the A.M.A. and the American Psychiatric Association. It also brought a $2,000,000 libel suit from Goldwater against Fact, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg and his managing editor. Last week the suit finally came to trial.
The sheriff's decision to hang up his legislative guns is also based on political realism. Democrat Hayden faced the toughest fight of his career-and perhaps his first defeat since turning professional-because Barry Goldwater will be the Republican candidate. Still, Hayden is not withdrawing entirely. He is...
Fear of Being Blunted. This nimble needling of all politicians is characteristic of Oliphant, who does not wear his politics on his sleeve, and in fact considers politics to be a rather humorous calling. His politicians are not the hardened villains of the Washington Post's Herblock or the...
Understandably, politicians who want to get anywhere in Oklahoma come hat in hand to Gaylord. The present Republican Governor, Dewey Bartlett, candidly admits that he owes his election in large part to Gaylord's support. Though he has not backed a Democratic presidential candidate since 1932, Gaylord insists on...