Word: goldwaterism
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How quickly we all forget--even TIME. Admirable as Gore's selection of Lieberman is, the Senator is hardly the first Jew on a national ticket. That would be Barry Goldwater, the G.O.P. presidential candidate in the 1964 election. DON WATERS Ridgefield, Conn.
The Yale class of '68 offered George W. Bush a perfect chance to become his own man, as many sons of privilege did. Many of them forswore their trust funds, dodged the draft, grew their hair, switched from beer to pot. But in a way, the opposite happened with W...
And before the theatrics begin (I can hear the shrieks from my McGovern-supporting parents now: "We have no daughter! Our daughter is dead!"), I'd like to reassure my family and the New York State Democratic party that I have no intentions of declaring membership in the party of...
Penning the transformational speech is Mike Gerson, the bespectacled former journalist who can quote passages from Martin Luther King more easily than the bromides of Barry Goldwater. An evangelical like Bush, a Hoosier who worked for Dan Coats, the former Indiana Senator, Gerson was one of the scribes of compassionate...
Reagan is another hero. McCain voted for the Reagan budgets to which Goldwater objected, and today he calls himself "a proud conservative in the tradition of Ronald Reagan and my favorite, Theodore Roosevelt." But Reagan and Roosevelt represent very different traditions. Reagan passed tax cuts for the rich (McCain voted...