Word: goldwaterism
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Emboldened by a burgeoning prosperity, and by the failure of Goldwater to make a reasonable and acceptable case for his own brand of conservatism, Johnson played the electorate like a mighty pipe organ. He drowned out concern over the Bobby Baker scandal and the war in Viet Nam with platitudes...
What does the Republican Party do now? Plainly, it must start picking itself up, which will take time and cause pain. But the pattern that eventually emerges will almost certainly be designed by moderate men of the center. On a personal level, Goldwater's future as a party power...
Thus, the Republicans who emerge as leaders from the catastrophe of 1964 are veterans of the moderate wing. Some were not up for re-election and were essentially unscarred by the Democratic juggernaut-such as Governors Scranton and Rockefeller and former Vice President Richard Nixon. But of the G.O.P. candidates...
From the Clutches. Of course, the contest between moderates and Goldwaterites for control of the party machinery could well become a brutal fight before it is resolved. The National Committee's leadership, notably Chairman Dean Burch, was hand-picked by Goldwater. The moderates badly need to take over the...
Diverted Attention. On the stump, Humphrey counted the countless mis- deeds of Barry Goldwater. "He wouldn't vote yes for Mother's Day," he cried in Peoria, 111., and in Decatur he added: "I imagine that Abraham Lincoln would be called a socialist by the present pretender to...