Word: goldwaterism
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The Cow Palace was no place for Republican moderation. The amendments on extremism and nuclear weapons control lost by huge head counts, with shoulder-to-shoulder phalanxes of Goldwater people rising to vote no. And when the long-and relatively listless-debate on civil rights ended, Morton polled each delegation...
In April 1961, a few days after the Bay of Pigs, the author of these lines entered the oval office of the White House to see his personal friend and political foe, Jack Kennedy. The President had just stepped out for a few minutes. The visitor waited, and decided to...
Though he is now his party's presidential nominee, there is some reason to believe that Goldwater would still rather be Right than President. He long resisted the demands of his followers that he declare his candidacy. A man without personal guile, Goldwater was not just being coy. It...
Morris' brother Baron moved on to open a Goldwater store in Phoenix. There he married Josephine Williams, a Nebraska-born nurse who had contracted tuberculosis and gone for her health to Arizona-where she still lives, active and sprightly at 89. Their son Barry was born in 1909, raised...
He worked so hard at the job that, as his wife Peggy recently disclosed, he twice suffered nervous exhaustion, had to take time off. Columnist Drew Pear son seized on that fact to call into question Goldwater's mental stability. In reply, Goldwater pointed to his record as an...