Word: goldwaterism
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Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and Presidential Counsellor Kenneth Rush favor more Administration "jawboning" against big wage and price boosts. President Ford himself asked for and signed into law last week a bill creating a new Council on Wage and Price Stability, headed by Rush, that will monitor increases and...
Silent Guns. Once it would have been swiftly punctured by the party's right wing, which was outraged when Rockefeller refused to support Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race. This time there were a few random shots but no fusillade. The balloon stayed afloat, and so did Rockefeller...
Though he had little chance of being nominated, Rocky made a gallant fight against Goldwater, culminating in an appearance at the G.O.P. convention that many think was his finest moment in public life. While right-wingers hurled abuse at him, he stood unruffled on the podium, refusing to budge until...
He tried for the presidency once more in 1968, but again Nixon had pocketed the votes of too many delegates, and his rebuff of Goldwater still rankled with many. Beyond that, Rockefeller had been nationally wounded by a fellow liberal Republican, Mayor Lindsay. During the winter, New York City sanitation...
You identify Maine's William Cohen as the son of "a Jewish baker and an Irish mother," implying that a religious identity is one and the same as an identity of national origin. I would not wish to nitpick over a matter of semantics, but this sort of writing...