Word: goldwaterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Von Salzen came to the presidency of the club in 1964, a bad year for Republicans. Goldwater is only partially to blame for the decline in the HYRC which began that year. The Republican Party may have recovered from the debacle of '64, but the club has not.
After ten years of writing a thrice-weekly political column, Barry Goldwater brought it to an end last week. He was writing his last column, he said, because he was becoming "more politically active" in Arizona-meaning that he plans to run for Carl Hayden's Senate seat this...
Goldwater had a clear conscience about deserting the ranks of conservative columnists because so many others had joined up. "Conservatism," he wrote, "is receiving almost equal billing with liberal writers who have for so long dominated the editorial pages of our country's newspapers." He even had a kind...
The Los Angeles Times, which syndicated Goldwater, was sorry to see him go. Though the number of papers carrying him had dropped from a peak of 110 in 1963 to 75, it included more large metropolitan dailies. Replacing Goldwater in the Times is none other than Everett M. Dirksen, who...
More from More It would be an outrageous generality to say that the most money always wins. In 1966, Georgia's Segregationist Lester Maddox proved that a polemicist can be elected Governor just by saying the right thing to the right people. He did not even give away campaign...