Word: goldwaterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Olsen was appointed last month to become the department's chief of press relations, both reporters and diplomats were generally enthusiastic. But the approval in Washington was not unanimous. Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater fired off a note to Secretary of State William Rogers declaring that Olsen...
Report from Bonn. The Senator's grudge against Olsen dates from July 15, 1964 when, in the midst of the Republican National Convention, the New York Times published a story from its Bonn bureau reporting that Goldwater had been exchanging letters with right-wing West German politicians. Most notably...
When the story appeared, Goldwater called it the "damnedest lies," and Seebohm's staff issued a denial that the two men had ever met or exchanged letters. Today, Olsen sticks by his story, claiming that he confirmed it with Seebohm and other sources.
Goldwater's Lesson. Both parties, Scammon and Wattenberg argue, tend to magnify impulses at either extreme. Some Democrats speak of forming a new coalition of the left composed of the young, the black, the poor, the well-educated, while relegating others, especially white union labor, to the ranks of...
Goldwater, in 1964, carried five Southern states and Arizona."