Word: goldwaterism
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A favorite Democratic pastime these days is explaining why Republican Barry Goldwater will not win his party's 1964 presidential nomination.
Last week, for example, a White House aide, obviously reflecting his boss's views, confided to newsmen that Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller will knock each other off, opening the way for Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton or, less likely, Michigan's Governor George Romney.
Then Walter Lippmann, high priest of liberal Democratic pundits, all but excommunicated Goldwater from the G.O.P. Goldwater, said Lippmann, probably will be refused the nomination because his "philosophy is radically opposed to the central traditions of the Republican Party, and is wholly alien to the moderate and conservative character of...
Lippmann accused Goldwater of viewing the Federal government as "a kind of foreign power which must be reduced and distrusted." Goldwater's brand of Republicanism is contrary to that of the "greatest" Republicans, Hamilton, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, who "stood for a strong and evolving Federal power, not for...
Questions & Answers. When he isn't accused of being an extremist, Goldwater is usually denounced by his opponents for dealing in generalities. Last week, in an interview with U.S. News & World Report, he gave some specific answers, several of which could be called nonconformist.