Word: goldwaterism
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Lulled Partisans. Perhaps the compounding error his fellow professionals were least likely to forgive Goldwater was the utter lack of coordination of his campaign. He could boast that he had put the G.O.P.. which in August was some $600,000 in the red, back in the black. The more...
"You know we conservatives are great believers in the fact that human nature doesn't change," Barry explained at the beginning of the campaign. "The only thing you can do about history is try to make it better the twelfth or 20th time around." But for the vast majority...
>Robert Taft Jr. has a name that is magic in Ohio, but it took more than magic to buck the Johnson tide, which peaked at better than 700,000. For Republican Representative Taft, 47, the problem was not just incumbent Senator Stephen M. Young, an aging (75) me too echo...
> Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott, 64, may have been mildly amused-at first. Running against him was a 51-year-old spinster named Genevieve Blatt, the state's secretary of internal affairs and a liberal Democrat addicted to flowery hats. She had won the Democratic Senate primary...
Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire made a series of speeches back in 1959 and 1960 castigating Lyndon Johnson's "dictatorial" tactics as Senate majority leader. In the 1964 campaign, he made it clear that he was eager to let bygones be bygones, but Proxmire's differences with...