Word: goldwaterism
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Exasperated after the close of a Congress paralyzed by frequent Republican filibusters, a few Senate alumni have risen to take action -- and exact pledges of reform. Action, Not Gridlock, a bipartisan group, led by former Sens. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) and Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), wrote to this year's...
Nixon meanwhile sat out in his beach house in San Clemente, California, reading a biography of Napoleon and staring at the ocean. But he had also been listening to some of the disputed tapes, and he had found one -- the "smoking gun" -- that threatened to destroy his whole case. It...
Still only 49, he decided to move to New York City and make some money by practicing corporate law. He joined a prosperous Wall Street firm, which thereupon became Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander. But he never really retired from politics. He was just biding his time. He thought...
Others carried signs reading. "If Harvard honors war, who will teach us to honor peace?" "Military Homophobia Kills" and "Even Goldwater Sees the Point."
In America, political movements need to police their extremes. Conservatism is no exception. It is a matter not just of principle, but of practical politics. Unless conservatism is prepared to divorce itself from its extremists, it will suffer the taint. As it suffered in 1964 when Barry Goldwater declared famously...