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Wednesday, Aug. 7, Haig told me that Nixon would be meeting that afternoon with key Republican leaders of the Congress: Senator Hugh Scott, Congressman John Rhodes and the respected conservative Senator Barry Goldwater. That might prove decisive. At 5:58 p.m. Haig called. Could I come right over to the...
ILL. Barry Goldwater, 72, Arizona's grand old conservative Republican Senator; with degenerative arthritis in the left hip; in Phoenix. He will undergo surgery to replace the hip with a metal ball and plastic socket. Goldwater, who limped painfully around the Senate during the AW ACS debate, will be...
McGovern seems to separate the current president from some of his hate-mongering supporters. "Well, he's probably the kind of guy you wouldn't mind going fishing with for a weekend," he laughs. McGovern believes that Reagan himself probably makes very little of his own policy, merely acting as...
THIS ABIDING FAITH in the power of reason was the guiding principle of McGovern's political career--as such, it was both his greatest virtue and the source of his ultimate failure. On the one hand, it gave him the determination to speak his mind, to take principled but unpopular...
But, on the other hand, as 1980--and the debacle of 1972--showed, McGovern's faith obscured his vision of political reality. The genius of the New Right groups who defeated him was to recognize that one can't afford to trust one's political opponents the way McGovern did...