Word: goldwaterism
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In the depths of disaster, the big pitch of the party consensus was to remove not only Barry Goldwater but all of his henchmen from any position of power in the Republican hierarchy.
In the hip pocket of his tan twill trousers, Lyndon carried Barry Goldwater's belated and somewhat snarly telegram of concession. It said: "Congratulations on your victory. There is much to be done with Viet Nam, Cuba, the problem of law and order in this country, and a productive...
"This Goldwater ideology, the thing he called conservatism was beaten," cried Kansas' outgoing Republican Governor John Anderson, who did not stand for reelection. "It lost in every state. In the South, prejudice voted, not his philosophy, and in Arizona they voted hometown. These Goldwater people have got to roll...
But there seemed to be no great degree of agreement even among the moderates themselves as to how all this revitalization should be accomplished. The reason was simple enough: the Republican Party no longer has any real sense of itself as a party; it is, rather, a conflicting conglomeration of...
Goldwater less than enthusiastic support, describing Rockefeller as a "spoilsport" and the Republican Party's "principal divider." Rockefeller was vacationing in Madrid, and the rain in Spain fell lightly on his pain. Nixon's "peevish post-election utterance," he replied, was "hardly calculated to advance" Republican Party unity...