Word: goldwaterism
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Republican Barry Goldwater, for one, took a dim view of Wallace's machinations. "Wallace can elect Johnson more than anything you can think of," said Barry at a California meeting of businessmen. He pegged the G.O.P.'s 1968 presidential chances at "less than fifty-fifty": Wallace's...
As the convention opened, the G.O.P. national leadership-hand politely extended-asked for just a little more consideration. After all, the party subsidizes the Y.R. treasury to the tune of around $90,000 a year. Could it not at least have veto power over the choice of the Y.R. executive...
"We Want Reagan!" Though Goldwater was their hero, California's Ronald Reagan was obviously their new political sex symbol. As Reagan entered the cavernous Omaha Sports Arena for the final night's speechmaking, applause quickly turned into a fevered five-minute chant of "We want Reagan! We want...
All of the volume's 124 plates are reproductions of treasures from the Senator's own collection. Begun in 1963 as a catalogue for an exhibit of his pieces at the Kress Museum in Allentown, Pa., the book might be counted as one of the unexpected bonuses from...
Rockefeller is also aware of his own unpopularity among party workers, who have long memories of 1964 when, after vigorously seeking the nomination, Rocky refused to support Barry Goldwater. Richard Nixon, for one, is known to feel that because of this a Rockefeller nomination next year is out of the...