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The Rag in the Bag. A more radical proposal is the "negative income tax" theory of University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, a former Goldwater braintruster. He proposes that the Federal Government set a $3,000 yearly income as the minimum for a family of four, and pay a man...
The heaviest artillery trained on Fulbright came, not exactly as a surprise, from Barry Goldwater. Addressing 3,000 delegates to the annual Republican Women's Conference in Washington, Goldwater declared that "no American has the right or the justification" to describe his nation as "immoral, imperialistic and arrogant."
He added: "That goes double for doing it in time of war and in a fashion that lends support and aid and comfort to our enemies. I don't care whether the American is a misguided Vietnik or chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." In fact, Goldwater continued...
Richman does point to one general deficiency in executive conduct of foreign affairs: "the foreign policy programs these presidents carry into office with them usually amount to no more than a few pledges to defend freedom against communism." However, one must recall the nation's repudiation in 1964 of Goldwater...
Certainly, as columnists go, old Newsman O'Hara (New York Herald Tribune, New York Daily Mirror, TIME) writes as brightly as most and less fatuously than many. While his Coolidge-era conservatism often placed him not only outside the mainstream of U.S. opinion but outside shouting distance of the...