Word: goldwaterism
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EISENHOWER AND ROCKEFELLER. The Democrats have only Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson to match against Dick Nixon's high-caliber supporting cast, but, says Bobby, "you can't transfer popularity." Nevertheless, Bobby and his Harris pollsters are tracking Ike's campaign path anxiously. They are also concerned...
Bowles' belief in a liberal consensus of public opinion suffers from the same basic weakness as Goldwater's notion of the conservative consensus--neither exists--but Bowles' argument at least has some interesting historical roots. Bowles sees a pattern in American political history of recurring "breakthroughs" (or "breaksthrough": this is...
This issue of the weekly supplement is devoted to politics. In it are a review of recent books by Senator Barry Goldwater, Chester Bowles, and John Kenneth Galbraith, a photographic feature on disarmament efforts in Boston, an analysis of last Saturday's SANE Rally, and a review of Eugene Black...
As for the content of Bowles' hypothetical consensus, it follows the general line of Democratic platform and campaign, with the same virtues (concern for all the necessary things Goldwater would abandon) and faults (an eagerness to disguise the fact that public programs cost money and a corresponding failure to stress...
In the course of this rather haphazard series of essays, Galbraith provides some comments relevant to Goldwater, Bowles and, in particular, the 1960 campaign. Since Galbraith comments have a way of standing on their own, it may be sufficient to merely quote a few that seem particularly apt: