Word: goldwaterism
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First, the House Democratic Caucus demoted two southern Democrats, John Bell Williams of Mississippi and Albert W. Watson of South Carolina, to the very bottom of the seniority ladder because they openly supported Barry Goldwater for the Presidency. The emphatic margin in the Caucus (157-115) suggests that southern conservatives...
In an extraordinary two-page letter to each of the 132 Republican National Committee members who will meet in Chicago on Jan. 22 to vote on Burch's future, Barry proved that he, at least, still had a powerful faith in his cause. "I feel the removal of Dean...
Still, it was highly questionable whether the Goldwater pen-pal plan would save Burch. Moderate Republicans were confident last week that they had a firm committee majority ready to vote against him.
No sooner had Erway been designated for the senate job than the Wagner forces started fighting back. Four liberal state senators from New York City charged that Erway was a "Goldwater Democrat" who had voted with the Republicans on occasion, had fought a measure to ban discrimination in public housing...
"We almost fell off our stools when we saw it," said an astonished Pentagon man. Saw what? The letter to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 48, that read: "I have been in the Reserve and National Guard at various times for the past 34 years, and I must say that of...