Word: goldwaterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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You identify Maine's William Cohen as the son of "a Jewish baker and an Irish mother," implying that a religious identity is one and the same as an identity of national origin. I would not wish to nitpick over a matter of semantics, but this sort of writing...
A flurry of phone calls between Scott, Goldwater and three White House aides, Haig, Dean Burch and William Timmons, quickly followed. Goldwater's intention was unmistakably clear to Nixon's men: he wanted to let the President know that his Senate support had collapsed and that many Republican...
But Rockefeller has drawbacks as well. Chief among them is the fact that some members of the Republican right wing have never forgiven him for his apostasy in 1964, when he refused to endorse the party's presidential nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Indeed, a dozen conservative Republican...
In 1964 Nixon gave full support and substantial time to Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign. He knew Goldwater had no chance, but his efforts in a lost cause won Nixon the gratitude of G.O.P. conservatives and helped to convince all of the party's factions that it would...
To the leadership of the Republican Party at large, the fall of Richard Nixon was a moment of genuine distress. Barry Goldwater called it "the saddest days of my life." Many, like Georgia Party Chairman Robert J. Shaw, wept. John J. McCloy, an elder among New York Republicans, called the...