Word: goldwaterism
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And I confess I laughed at the 1968 Time parody which reported a rocky romance between Tricia Nixon and Barry Goldwater III: "Tricia recently began avoiding 'that boring creep' and letting it be known around Washington that she'd 'rather have skin cancer than one of his disgusting hickeys.'"
To earn such kudos, Rockefeller has stumped the country in recent weeks as a gravel-voiced Spiro Agnew, bragging about New York's tough new drug law, decrying welfare cheaters, and heaping praise on Republican stalwarts. (In Arizona, he paid effusive tribute to Barry Goldwater. Apparently, ambition heals all wounds...
IT IS IMPORTANT to remember, though, that Rockefeller is changing merely his image. His politics have always been conservative, although he has managed to pass himself off as a progressive when it suited his needs (such as when he ran against Nixon and Goldwater).
Shifting from large dinners in the State Dining Room to cozy cocktail sessions in the upstairs solarium, the sessions were brutally candid at times. Some participants felt painfully uncomfortable listening to the President pleading, although not contritely, for understanding. Called on to give his views, Republican Senator Barry Goldwater pulled...
Now Mr. Garin's concern is worthy and important, but, as always, good intent is no guarantee of understanding (as Thoreau well recognized when he remarked that if he knew for a certainty that a man was coming to his house with the conscious design of doing him good, he...