Word: goldwaterism
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"I admire a brave man," he went on, "but some people have got more guts than brains." Embroidering his charge that Goldwater would send the U.S. "to hell in a hack" by tearing down programs that have been built up over the past 30 years, he added: "Any jackass can...
"I'm the most underdog underdog there is," said Barry Goldwater to a Las Vegas airport audience. Yet as far as audience reaction was concerned, Barry had perhaps the most momentous moments of his whole campaign.
Reporters accompanying Barry said that a defeatist attitude pervaded the whole Goldwater entourage. But Barry certainly did not sound defeatist in his public utterances. If nothing else, he was on the offensive. Said he to the Madison Square Garden throng: "It is a fact that Lyndon Johnson and his curious...
Democrats, Barry charged, "are driving and confusing you with the basic dishonesty that permeates so much political campaigning. I speak of peace. Your interim President tells you I want to start a war, which is ridiculous, and you know it, and he knows it. I speak of strengthening the social...
Johnson's confidence was reinforced by 44 leading clergymen, many of them accredited liberals, who took a gratuitous, though oblique, swipe at Barry Goldwater and the whole Republican Party for using the Jenkins case "as a weapon in this campaign." In a 350-word statement issued by Union Theological...