Word: goldwaterism
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It is not often that presidential nominees to the nation's highest court are turned down by the Senate. Despite widespread approval of Reagan's choosing a woman for his first nominee, there was some organized opposition from far-right activists who felt that O'Connor'...
"We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further." So vowed California's embattled Jerry Brown last week about the Mediterranean fruit fly, a pest that has pushed Brown's approval rating to its second lowest level...
But California is known for its improbable political successes. A famous name has not hurt the current front runners in the fight to take over Hayakawa's seat-Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. (son of the former California Governor) and Representative Barry Goldwater Jr. (son of the current Arizona...
DIED. Ray Bliss, 73, veteran strategist of the Republican Party who, as its national chairman, played a key role in rebuilding the organization after Barry Goldwater's crushing loss to Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential race; in Akron. After working in the 1931 mayoral election in his native...
Still, the Senate committee's final statement on Casey was a compromise. Some Senators, including Washington's Henry Jackson, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and Rhode Island's John Chafee, had urged the committee to express its "absolute confidence" in Casey. Others, including Goldwater, New York Democrat Daniel...