Word: goldwaterism
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But by week's end CIA Director William J. Casey, 68, a Reagan political crony who had appointed Hugel against strong opposition within the CIA, and with little if any White House support, was in trouble too. He was the focus of an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee...
O'Connor shares with Rehnquist more than a Stanford background; both are Republicans from Arizona who have Barry Goldwater's favor. Nonetheless, legal scholars doubt that O'Connor will become a clone of the court's leading conservative. They do not expect a pair of "Arizona...
No one championed O'Connor more forcefully than her longtime Arizona friend, Senator Barry. Goldwater, whose early urging had helped her gain White House support. Noting the opposition to O'Connor from the far-right groups, Goldwater declared: "I don't like getting kicked around by people...
O'Connor's name had initially surfaced early at Justice as a possible choice to head the department's civil division. The old-boy network of Stanford had brought her to Smith's attention. Among those who recommended O'Connor, as the search for a...
Presidential styles are always a matter of elaborate psychological discretion and democratic fine tuning. A President cannot in any important way violate the values of his people or the spirit of his time; not with impunity, anyway. A President, being standin, scapegoat and exemplar, works even closer to the Zeitgeist...