Word: goldwaterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Franklin Roosevelt had been his idol and his model, and he set about to complete the New Deal. A cornucopia of liberal legislation-part Roosevelt New Deal, part Kennedy New Frontier, part Johnson's own Great Society -poured forth in housing, antipoverty programs, education, conservation, civil rights, Medicare. After...
Oberlin football team had gone winless in eight games the season before he arrived, had an obvious rejoinder: "How can we destroy sports with a record like that? We have nowhere to go but up." Describing himself as a "radical populist," Scott insists that his aim is not to de...
Only Black. Despite the fact that he was confirmed as Attorney General only after a bitter fight over his role in the ITT scandal, Richard Kleindienst will stay on the job. A tough law-and-order man who has Barry Goldwater's backing, Kleindienst has not been in the...
Back in his native California, the task had sometimes been easier. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Weinberger went to Sacramento as a state legislator in 1952. In 1959 he returned to his lucrative San Francisco law practice, serving as California's G.O.P. state chairman from...
- No one summed up the political philosophy of North Carolina's new Republican Senator-elect, Jesse Helms, better than Barry Goldwater. "If you want to out-Goldwater Goldwater," the Arizona Senator told North Carolinians, "let him come." Helms, in his victory over three-term Congressman Nick Galifianakis for the...