Word: goldwaterism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Carter labels Governor Reagan a warmonger. Lyndon Johnson tried to pin the same accusation on Barry Goldwater in 1964 and won reelection, then sent 600,000 men to Viet Nam. Brian B. Tousley Monterey, Calif.
The coalition reached its zenith in 1964, when the ultraconservatism of Barry Goldwater drove blocs of Democratic votes back to Lyndon Johnson in numbers that Roosevelt himself might have envied. L.B.J. took 94% of the black vote, 90% of the Jewish vote, 80% of the union vote?and 61.4% of...
So many planks are crammed into the platform to satisfy different interest groups that Barry Goldwater once dismissed the whole exercise as a "packet of misinformation and lies." Presidential candidates have frequently repudiated their party platforms. In 1864 the Democratic platform called for an immediate end to the Civil War...
Reagan managed to make all his usual criticisms of Jimmy Carter, liberalism and the welfare state without being shrill or strident. There was scarcely an echo of Barry Goldwater's like-it-or-lump-it 1964 campaign oratory, though many of the ideas were the same. He was pungent...
Evans has been on the long march with Ronald Reagan almost from the beginning. She had never thought much about him-cannot even recall seeing one of his movies-until 1964 when he went on national TV to raise money for Barry Goldwater's slumping presidential campaign. Reagan spoke...