Word: goldwaterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ashbrook's chief asset is the backing of William Loeb, reactionary publisher of the state's leading newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader (TIME, Jan. 31). Ashbrook has little money and few volunteers. He has no support from the paladins of political conservatism-Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, John Tower...
Puns are not newcomers to the primitive art of political mayhem. Adlai Stevenson, whose puns were superior to both Muskie's and Nixon's, once characterized Barry Goldwater as "a man who thinks everything will be better in the rear future"; he declared on another occasion: "He who...
The Nixon ideology is essentially the ideology of liberal Democrats of the 1950s and early '60s with a few alterations. On the negative side, Nixon shows less willingness to prosecute corporations for acting against the public interest than did Democrats--although here the old Democrats provide us with no shining...
Greeley insisted that Knowles's election was not a repudiation of Kleindienst's politics. "I don't think there's anything political in the thing at all," he said. Kleindienst managed the 1964 presidential campaign of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and engineered last year's mass arrests of demonstrators...
Johnson's victory was due in part to the fact that most Americans place themselves in the center or left segments of the political spectrum. The landslide proportions of his win could almost have been the result of apparent collusion between Goldwater speechwriters and Democratic public relations men.