Word: goldwaterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last fall when the nation's voters gave the Democrats a 2-to-1 majority on Capitol Hill, Republicans warned disconsolately that the Congress would be virtually "veto-proof"-"probably the most dangerous we've ever had," as Arizona's Barry Goldwater called it. The Democrats rejoiced...
Richard P. Goldwater, M.D. Cambridge, Mass.
Services Committee, called the operation "a great boost to the country." Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois declared: "Let no one mistake the unity and the strength of an America under attack." Republican Senator Barry Goldwater said that without Ford's response, "every little half-assed nation would be...
DEAR AMERICA by KARL HESS 279 pages. Morrow. $7.95. Back in 1964, Karl Hess was a true believer of the right. As a speechwriter, aide and ideologue to Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater, he packaged the slogan that may have helped lose the campaign: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is...
This radiant vision has long tormented man, and it is quite possible that big government and big business are not the best means to pursue it. In Dear America, Hess often seems possessed of a belief in the perfectibility of human nature that is as simplistic as his Goldwater conservatism...