Word: goldwaterism
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Sir: The Republican Party has just elected the first all-American presidential candidate of this century and not the usual lily-livered appeaser we have come to associate with American leadership. The victory is, however, not only that of Goldwater and of the Republican Party but also that of all...
"Black Brush." The Louisville Courier-Journal warned: "The nation may prepare itself for one of the ugliest campaigns in our history. The strategy of the Goldwater high command . . . must be to inflame every minority grievance, to stir up the dregs of our national spirit, to make respectable the emotions and...
A few days before the convention, there was a real smear. In a report from Germany, CBS's Daniel Schorr clearly implied that Goldwater would, on his planned (and now canceled) post-convention trip to Berchtesgaden, seek a liaison between U.S. conservatives and German "right-wing elements"-which, in...
NBC's newsmen produced one ten-pound peccadillo, and it came in the twelve-minute interlude between Senator Goldwater's acceptance speech and the formal end of the convention. Huntley said: "Senator Keating of New York seems to be leading the entire New York delegation in departing from...
CBS was also best in coming up with offbeat sidebars, finding good material in unobvious quarters. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, for example, put in some fine moments on CBS sketching the faces of Goldwater and Scranton, making comments on the characters of each as he felt them coming up through his...