Word: goldwaterism
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Senator Goldwater's foolish insistence on depicting his policies as sharp departures from current practices did not help his cause. But it was incumbent Governors and Senators--of both parties--who received the greatest aid from the electorate's new mood. Most incumbent Governors and Senators--unlike most Representatives and...
RGA's power to act for all of us on one issue will give it the power to act on other, comparable ones. If it can take a stand on civil rights beyond the legal position, it can take a stand on other politics. For instance, given such power, RGA...
"Senators would call for some sort of negotiations. But Goldwater, with his lack of restraint, would retort that there is nothing to negotiate and we would only be selling out Southeast Asia if we sat down at a table with the North Vietnamese and Red China. Instead, he would recklessly...
"To explain these desperate actions, Goldwater would have the Defense and State Departments produce a 'White Paper' justifying the attacks and proving that Hanoi was responsible for the revolution in South Viet Nam."
Of course, wrote Buchwald, Democrats would hotly insist they had known all along that Goldwater would plunge the U.S. into a war. Republicans would argue that Goldwater had no choice, that anyway he had merely inherited the Viet Nam mess from the Democrats. "It all seems far-fetched," allowed Buchwald...