Word: goldwaterism
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The Democrats lost the Senate majority in 1952, but in that same election, Democratic Floor Leader Ernest McFarland of Arizona was defeated at home by Republican Barry Goldwater. The day after the elections, Baker was summoned to the telephone from law class at American University. It was Lyndon Johnson, calling...
Barry Goldwater still putters in his Phoenix saguaro cactus garden, where he has rigged heat lamps that glow automatically whenever freezing temperatures threaten. Nelson Rockefeller steals moments at his hifi, sits fascinated by the Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman bands of the '30s. Dick Nixon thrills to the rough...
Day-Stretchers. One way to find moments of leisure is to stretch out each day. Goldwater normally arises by 5:30 a.m., takes a sandwich at his Washington desk if he lunches at all. George Romney gets up at 5:45, jogs through his Lansing neighborhood in sweat togs before...
At first, backers of Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater figured that he had at least a 4-to-l lead in New Hampshire over New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. But ever since, they have watched that margin melt away. First came the attrition caused by President...
No matter where he is, Harrington never lets you forget that he is a socialist iconoclast. His speech is spiced with phrases like "our quaint little economic system," "the good ol" American grass-roots system," and "pinch-penny politics." With tongue in check, he mentions "Barry Goldwater socialists"; a second...