Word: goldwaterism
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Shortly before the Republican National Convention last summer, 54 conservative Republican Congressmen signed a statement urging the nomination of Barry Goldwater, arguing that his candidacy would aid Republican candidates throughout the U.S. When the new Congress convenes in January, at least 23 of those Representatives will be among the missing...
The next House of Representatives seems certain to be the most liberal since the early years of President Roosevelt. The Democrats, by seizing 47 Republican seats while losing to just ten G.O.P. challengers, scored a net gain of 37. The new House thus will be dominated by Democrats by at...
What did Taft in, of course, was Goldwater. While he counted himself a Goldwater man in many respects, he also differed publicly from Barry on such issues as civil rights and the nu clear test ban treaty. But not quite enough Ohioans saw the distinction, and Young helped blur it...
He was credited with more guts than good sense when he decided to throw himself into the Republican gubernatorial primary this year, for his chief opponent was an evangelistic former preacher named Richard Christensen, who had amassed a zealous Goldwater following, notably including a band of women who paraded around...
Blue Eyes v. Blue Jowls. His campaign was managed by Robert Finch, Dick Nixon's old stage director. And the winning script was simple enough: be bland, be affable, offend no one by taking controversial stands, and never let anyone forget that Salinger was a carpetbagging resident of Virginia...