Word: goldwaterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curious Silence. Meanwhile Nelson Rockefeller moved ever closer to entry in the Oregon primary, which he now has to win just to stay in the race with Nixon. Last week 33 top Republicans gathered in his Fifth Avenue duplex to advise him on strategy. The council included Maryland's...
More important, Tennessee has become a two-party state. In 1964 Gore's Goldwater-Republican opponent charged that the Senator was too liberal for Tennessee. Gore polled only 54 per cent of the vote, and that was before he announced his unpopular opposition to the war.
Votes & Headlines. But which track? It was still early enough for Rockefeller to enter the Wisconsin, Indiana and Nebraska primaries. To do so would take enormous energy and bravery-some said foolhardiness-because he would be exposing himself to conservative animosity, with virtually no chance of victory. Midwestern Republican leaders...
Although much is made of the conservative-liberal split between the two, they have rarely been in conflict on basic principles. When Rockefeller worked for Eisenhower as Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and later as his Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs, he occasionally found an ally in Nixon...
Though New Hampshire Democrats heavily favor Johnson, only 28% named sincerity as one of his strong points. Johnson is in trouble with the rest of the New Hampshire voters. In 1964 he beat Goldwater in a state with 149,000 registered Republicans and 89,000 registered Democrats. Now, 63% of...