Word: goldwaterism
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The old man, who shuffles haltingly around the Capitol with the aid of a mahogany cane, announced that he is feeling so politically spry he may well run against Barry Goldwater next year for an eighth term in the Senate.
Some moderates fear nonetheless that they will be thwarted by what many see as a general drift toward the right in the U.S. One of them recalls the meeting between a group of moderates, including Javits, Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott and Henry Cabot Lodge, at a Manhattan restaurant...
Any of them could conceivably wind up on a G.O.P. ticket. "If there's a convention deadlock," says Goldwater, "well, it depends on who is sitting in the balcony, as Willkie was." So crowded is the balcony that one New England politician, asked to suggest a few tickets, rattled...
Then he launched into "the Speech," a rerun of the 1964 peroration for Goldwater that established Dutch Reagan's conservative credentials.
Mickey Could Win. Scanning the rest of the field, Lindsay remarked that Michigan's Governor George Romney is probably dead politically, and was moribund even before he weighed in with his "brainwashing" blooper. Richard Nixon would be acceptable unless he pursued an overly militant line on the war. Ronald...