Word: goldwaterism
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THE U.N. vote admitting mainland China and expelling Taiwan stung many Americans, but none more than Richard Nixon's vocal constituents of the Republican right. Uneasy about the President's policy since his wooing of Peking began, they exploded in choleric anger as the U.N. resolution confirmed their worst fears...
In all these declarations, of course, Rehnquist was speaking as a Government advocate, which led one prominent law professor to condemn him last week as "President Nixon's hired gunslinger." Herbert Packer of Stanford observed that Rehnquist had done "a prominent job in taking a hard, repressive line." The former...
Rehnquist is an active Goldwater-style Republican who worked as a precinct committeeman during the presidential campaign of his fellow Arizonan. But even those who disagree with his conservative views concede his keen intelligence and professional skill. Born in Milwaukee in 1924, Rehnquist went to college and law school at...
This peaceful life was interrupted because Rehnquist had made friends with Richard Kleindienst. another Phoenix lawyer and Goldwater enthusiast. When Kleindienst came to Washington as the No. 2 man in John Mitchell's Justice Department, he urged Rehnquist to join the Nixon team. In January of 1969, Rehnquist became head...
The Media Morphosis. Gold has stuck out his job since the 1970 elections (he had three predecessors) mainly because he believes in what he is doing. He grew up in New Orleans and attended Tulane University, where he wrote a column for the school newspaper. Says Gold: "I wanted to...