Word: goldwaterism
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Sir: I prefer that the finger on the trigger be guided by Barry Goldwater, not a bumble-brained L.B.J.
Sir: I hope Goldwater reads your article and uses some of your explanations to clarify his position! At long last, I have found an article that didn't raise an emotional storm of fear, but rather attempted to clarify the issue.
Sir: It is true that Percy's brand of Republicanism [Sept. 18] is less conservative than Goldwater's. Insofar as it is possible, Percy's campaign is being run on state issues, the most telling of which is the lack of leadership by our amiable but ineffectual...
In other words, the campaign of 1960 was a good deal different from that of 1964. At first, several significant issues seemed likely to emerge in this year's campaign. There was civil rights, for example, but its real importance was quickly lost in an emotionally charged fog about...
The campaign has become so vituperative, in fact, that South Dakota's Republican Karl Mundt, himself a notable rough-and-tumble campaigner and a strong Barry Goldwater partisan, rose in the Senate last week to decry its "low-level, schoolyard" tactics. Complained Mundt: "What kind of madness is upon...