Word: goldwaterism
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But the President got able assistance from his Senate allies, especially Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Senators Henry Jackson and Alan Cranston. They labored skillfully to keep wobbling votes in line. The final tally was a bewildering blend of liberals and conservatives from both parties. The opposition, similarly, contained such...
Illinois Congressman Philip M. Crane was in his office with the flags and the Lincoln busts a couple of months ago, and he was in the middle of a sentence when he decided he would run for President of the United States. He was, in fact, parrying the entreaties of...
After marriage in 1949, to Fred Schlafly, a wealthy corporation lawyer, she became increasingly involved in right-wing Republican politics. In addition to writing the bestselling book A Choice Not an Echo for Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign, she started her own national newsletter, the Phyllis Schlafly Report...
The 800 members of the Circumnavigators Club in New York City include Senator Barry Goldwater, who walked around the world both ways at the South Pole; Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who holds the record for the highest circumnavigation; and Admiral James Calvert, who circled under the North Pole's icecap...
Gart was a newspaper reporter and editor (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Wichita Eagle and Beacon) before joining TIME as Toronto bureau chief in 1955. As TIME'S bureau chief in Chicago from 1959 to 1964, he covered both the Kennedy-Nixon and Johnson-Goldwater national presidential campaigns. Gart reported on...