Word: goldwaterism
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The potshots at the Pentagon sounded like standard Democratic liberalism. Slash the Administration's proposed defense budget. Forget about building the MX missile. Get all those bureaucratic bigwigs out from behind their desks at the Pentagon. Crack down on the piggishness of defense contractors. Broadsides they were, but not...
Goldwater, 75, has always been unusually candid, often to the discomfort of conservative comrades. Now that he has announced he will not run for reelection in 1986, the curmudgeon is even freer to speak his mind. Last spring he sent a scolding letter to CIA Director William Casey for not...
"My principal effort is going to be in the area of getting costs down," he told the Washington Post last week. He would have the Pentagon forgo the $40 billion increase it wants next year, freezing the budget at its current level. He goes further than most Democrats have even...
That left Stevens, who as majority whip was Baker's assistant during Reagan's first term, in a face-off with Dole. In Stevens' corner was Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who in an effective, if quirky, nomination speech compared the Senate to the Washington Redskins football team...
At the first Cabinet meeting after his reelection, Reagan pulled out of his coat pocket a copy of his famous 1964 speech for Barry Goldwater in which he laid down his scripture about forcing Government to heel. It was like Moses bringing back the tablets for review.