Word: goldwaterism
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Oberlin football team had gone winless in eight games the season before he arrived, had an obvious rejoinder: "How can we destroy sports with a record like that? We have nowhere to go but up." Describing himself as a "radical populist," Scott insists that his aim is not to de...
Only Black. Despite the fact that he was confirmed as Attorney General only after a bitter fight over his role in the ITT scandal, Richard Kleindienst will stay on the job. A tough law-and-order man who has Barry Goldwater's backing, Kleindienst has not been in the...
Back in his native California, the task had sometimes been easier. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Weinberger went to Sacramento as a state legislator in 1952. In 1959 he returned to his lucrative San Francisco law practice, serving as California's G.O.P. state chairman from...
- Withstanding the Nixon landslide remarkably well, Democrats managed to keep control of both houses of Congress, and they are in far better shape than the Republicans were after the 1964 Goldwater fiasco.
- No one summed up the political philosophy of North Carolina's new Republican Senator-elect, Jesse Helms, better than Barry Goldwater. "If you want to out-Goldwater Goldwater," the Arizona Senator told North Carolinians, "let him come." Helms, in his victory over three-term Congressman Nick Galifianakis for the...