Word: goldwaterism
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Actually, the President had not wanted Lodge to leave Saigon in the first place, and it was with genuine reluctance that he bowed last year to Lodge's desire to return to the U.S. and try to head off Barry Goldwater for the Republican presidential nomination. Johnson and Lodge...
But carefully though they read Mr. White's book, they will not find all the answers there. For Mr. White may be an old China hand and former destitute novelist, but he is now, palpably one of the members of the Eastern Establishment he describes so brilliantly. And he has...
Yet there are passages of Johnson's behavior-his peculiar relations with the press, for example-that Mr. White cannot explain-and when it comes to Goldwater, the passages become chapters. When White shifts from the Democratic to the Republican campaign, he changes from insider to outsider. He examines Goldwater...
He treats the Goldwater campaign as if it had been hopeless from the start, but it is tempting to recall that not too many people were willing to say so a year ago, with the memory of San Francisco still fresh and the thought of George Wallace's primary adventures...
In short, Mr. White offers us a Barry Goldwater stumbling and bumbling down the long campaign, but never bothers to ask why he was permitted on the road in 1964 at all, or, more intriguingly, what would have happened if he had not stumbled? What if Goldwater had not spoken...