Word: goldwaterism
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∙ NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POL ICY. Goldwater advocates a strong defense establishment, aligns himself with a foreign policy that matches the Eisenhower-Dulles view. "I think brinkmanship is a pretty good word." In his running figh-with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, he does not question the reliability of U.S...
∙ SOUTHEAST ASIA. "The first thing we've got to do is make the decision that we're going to win in Viet Nam. The supplies of the Communist invaders have got to be cut off. This means threatening or actually interdicting the supply routes from Red China...
∙ FOREIGN AID. Goldwater favors the principle of military aid and technical assistance, but he would halt economic aid.
∙ SOCIAL SECURITY. In New Hampshire, Goldwater was asked if he favored continuing or altering the social security system. Replied he: "I would like to suggest one change, that social security be voluntary." Almost everyone agrees that a voluntary social security system would be actuarially unsound, and Goldwater's...
∙ CIVIL RIGHTS. The civil rights bill is "like a three dollar bill-it's a phony." Goldwater opposes the public accommodations and FEPC sections of the pending civil rights bill, says that they are unconstitutional because they infringe on the rights of private property. He believes that "there...