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Never Such an Alarm. Once he became a full-fledged convert to the G.O.P., Reagan was eaeerly embraced by the party's conservative wing. They suggested that he launch a primary campaign to knock off Republican Moderate Tom Kuchel in 1962. Reagan said no but then backed Right-Winger...
Kuchel refused to help Reagan, Christopher's own top campaign advisers joined the nominee's crew right after the primary. Dozens of leftover Rockefeller-for-President crusad ers came aboard and, of course, so did plenty of Goldwater fans.
Such big-name Republicans as Dick Nixon, House Minority Leader Gerald Ford and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen have all offered to come in and campaign for Reagan, but the candidate has demurred on grounds that a state campaign should concentrate on state issues and state figures. Of course, any...
Self-Directed, Self-Motivated. Even so, Reagan is persistently labeled a secret standard-bearer for Goldwater. One reason is that he has stubbornly refused to repudiate the John Birch Society, arguing-as Goldwater did in '64 -that "if anyone chooses to support me, they're buying my views...
Governor Brown himself has left nothing to the imagination in smearing Reagan with the stain of extremism. At a Los Angeles fund-raising banquet last week, the Governor shouted: "If Ronald Reagan ever becomes Governor of California, the extremist movement in America would have a new lease on life. Reagan...