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The convention's mood turned nostalgic as it welcomed Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, the G.O.P.'s 1964 presidential nominee and at 75 still its grandest old conservative. As Goldwater, who has undergone surgery for heart and hip ailments in recent years, limped to the podium, few in the...
Furthermore, Goldwater said, "it has been the foreign policy and defense weakness of Democrat Administrations that have led us to war in the past," thus reviving an old, seldom used Republican charge that a Democrat was in the White House at the start of every war fought by the U.S...
White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett has covered Ronald Reagan since the 1980 campaign; last year Doubleday published Barrett's Gambling with History, an account of the President's first two years in office. Dallas, says Barrett, will be "something of a nostalgia trip. The first national convention I...
Jimmy Carter out of office. But in 1964 income jumped 6.9%, and President Lyndon Johnson trounced Barry Goldwater. For 1984, Wharton Econometrics predicts that real disposable income will advance 6.2%. Says Wescott: "Historical analysis suggests that the economic playing field is tilted quite heavily in the incumbent's favor...
Fate and gender, not her résumé, put Ferraro on the ticket. Only two House members have been elected Vice President this century: John Sherman in 1908 and John Nance Garner in 1932. A third, Gerald Ford, was appointed to the office in 1973 after Spiro Agnew'...