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Ironically, something like the old Warren strategy was revived by none other than Richard Nixon in his campaigns for the presidency in 1960 and for governor in 1962. Nixon's losses in both years left the field open for the increasing noisy and powerful radical right. The California right was...
Goldwater did not run so poorly in California as in other large industrial states. In southern California, especially, Goldwater ran only a little behind Nixon's rather strong 1960 showing. And right-wing Republican candidates in Congressional and local races won a surprisingly large number of successes.
No one is sure just how great Reagan's vote-getting power will be. But although he trails behind more moderate Republicans when matched in the polls against Democratic Governor Pat Brown, he can certainly run ahead of Goldwater's 41 per cent. There is some possibility that he might...
Girlish glee goes with grim ideology in Bettina. "Everyone said we were finks for supporting Johnson in 1964," she says, but Communists had to back L.BJ. because "Goldwater was a neofascist." Now she says that "President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara and the whole damned Administration are hypocrites and...
The advance guard of new columnists began to appear a few years ago when Bill Buckley, 40, and Barry Goldwater, 56, took up their positions as spokesmen for the right, while Michael Harrington, 37, author of The Other America, moved in on the left, and the team of Rowland Evans...