Word: goldwaterism
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Back from the Brink. The Republican recovery was the most dramatic since 1938. Then, after Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented sweep in 1936 had given the Democrats fantastically bloated congressional majorities?333 to 89 in the House, 75 to 17 in the Senate?the G.O.P. rebounded and recaptured 80 seats in...
The victory did more than pull the G.O.P. back from the brink. It reestablished an effective opposition in Congress, giving the two-party system some badly needed adrenalin. It also erased the Goldwater image of a narrow, negative clique, replacing it with the vision of a cohesive, inclusive party broad...
A Prize Worth Winning. Talk of 1968 is, of course, premature. But the very intensity and fervor with which it erupted even before all the ballots were counted was itself a reflection of the G.O.P.'s vastly improved outlook and buoyant spirits. In 1964, the liberal Eastern Establishment's so...
(4 of 10) 1968 to further "the basic mainstream thinking" in the G.O.P.: he wants to help nominate a moderate or a liberal. He has not for gotten the thunderous catcalls from the Goldwater gallery at San Francisco's Cow Palace in 1964, and he is determined to prevent the...
Ideologically too. But RONALD REAGAN, 55, has been moving toward the middle ever since he announced his candidacy and has been trying to prove that, unlike Barry Goldwater, he can be a kind of ecumenical conservative. After the 1964 election, he bitterly denounced Republicans who failed to support Goldwater as...