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Catholic, patrician and Ivy League, Buckley was not entirely like the movement he summoned into shape. The New Rightists drew their strength from the fast-growing Sunbelt states of the South and the West. Their hero was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Richard Nixon did not excite them. Forget for a...
Real rightists thought Nixon too had a squishy center. To the disgust of the Goldwater faction, he had spent much of the 1960 campaign courting Nelson Rockefeller, the lustrous epitome of the party's East Coast liberals. The last straw came on the eve of the G.O.P. Convention. At a...
Each college may identify three students as national finalists for the Truman Scholarship, and four students can be selected as Goldwater Scholarship finalists, according to Bohlmann.
Because Harvard College and Radcliffe College are considered separate schools, however, Harvard was able to send a maximum of six students to the Truman finals and eight to the Goldwater finals.
"Five out of seven Goldwater recipients is awfully darn good," he said. "And we usually get two or three Truman winners, but we've had a few years with more."