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In the race to the fill the seat of retiring five-term Senator Barry Goldwater. Republican John McCain was the winner. In a tight three-way race, Republican Evan Meacham won the governship.
They assumed wrong. Mecham won, and his upset victory has thrown the race into turmoil. His Democratic opponent, also chosen after a tough primary, is Carolyn Warner, for twelve years superintendent of public instruction. That choice left many of the state's top business and political leaders, who had supported...
The proposal was co-sponsored by Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater and Oklahoma Democrat David Boren, one of three Senators who accept no PAC funds (the others: Democrats William Proxmire of Wisconsin and John Kerry of Massachusetts). It limits House aspirants to a total of $100,000 in PAC money for...
Following his clerkship, Rehnquist set up a law practice in Phoenix. There he became a Goldwater conservative who opposed an integration plan for Phoenix public schools in 1967. Brought back to Washington to the Nixon Justice Department by another Phoenix lawyer, Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, Rehnquist was enlisted in...
Buchanan puts no stock in the theories espoused by earlier Reagan aides like Treasury Secretary James Baker, who saw presidential prestige as a precious commodity to be expended frugally. "Presidential capital is something that can be constantly replenished," Buchanan asserted in an interview with TIME last week. "When the President...