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Richard Nixon's trip to China [March 1] harks of another era when it was common for displaced monarchs to seek aid in enemy countries to regain a stronghold in their old domain. Senator Goldwater's suggestion that Nixon might do well to remain in China is equally...
The reaction back home ranged from annoyance to outrage. "If he wants to do this country a favor," Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater commented acidly, "he might stay over there." About the most gentle comment made in the wake of the trip came from an aide to President Ford. "You can...
No Shame. State Department officials were angered by some of Nixon's foreign policy pronouncements. Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays claimed that Nixon had gone to China "to hurt President Ford in New Hampshire." Syndicated Columnist David Broder angrily forswore a promise made to himself not to...
FOR 200 YEARS and more the United States has been generally free of what Europeans would call "Men of the Right." An amalgam of radical individualism and nativist Main Street values--anti-black, anti-foreign, fundamentalist--has historically passed as a unique American conservatism. Barry Goldwater and the Ku Klux...
"There was a period in the '60s when I was in a marginal district in Goldwater country, and I was not out in front on every liberal issue of the day, but that was my position," Udall said.