Word: goldwaterism
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Next night Goldwater appeared on a half-hour, nationwide taped television program. Seeking to project the image of a responsible, reasonable candidate, he repeated his oft-heard plea to Washington to "mind its own business while we, as individuals, get on with minding our jobs and our businesses." At week...
Even with a huge turnout, though, Rocky's best chance of overtaking Barry's lead might well be in a genuine "stop-Goldwater" coalition. On the eve of the Oregon election, Lodge's campaign managers were planning to help their own man by appealing to Lodge-leaning...
"The Jolly Boys." Just before Oregon, a Midwestern Republican summed up the G.O.P. presidential situation this way: "Everybody's waiting for California. A Goldwater loss there would have a tremendous effect. The jolly boys back East would go to work in a rush. But there's nothing they...
For good reason. Despite his pallor at the polls, Goldwater has such apparent delegate strength that he seemed a near cinch for the nomination. Then again, Lyndon Johnson looks like even more of a shoo-in for November, so many of the kingmakers decided they might as well sit this...
In their spare moments, of course, the kingmakers looked over the field for an able, available alternative to Goldwater. But they didn't find much, and that discouraged them. "You don't have any kingmakers," said General Lucius Clay, "unless you have someone to make a king out...