Word: gop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some distinction was made in your article between a "serious" and a non-serious group of GOP crashers. To my mind there is no difference: both sets showed great political irresponsibility and lack of judgment. Perhaps the best punishment for the so-called "serious candidate" for the co-chairmanship would have been for him to be elected and required to serve...
...encouraging sign, if he means to use the additional $45 billion in yearly revenue to ensure that domestic programs will not be cannibalized to feed the war. But more revenue will not be enough to pacify economy-minded Republicans; as Everett Dirksen said after the Johnson speech, the GOP congressmen will still be looking for ways to reduce the budget...
Many Republicans feel that the state GOP has begun to develop a positive identify during the past two years. The efforts of Volpe and Richardson and Brooke have taught the voters, they claim, to think of Republicans as more than reformers and seat-warmers who preserve the status quo between Democratic administrations...
...this supposed change in the Republican image--from that of care-taker to that of energetic and informed statesman -- that inspires the feeling that Republicans can now win without downplaying the party. GOP leaders feel that their task is to protect and strengthen this new-found positive identity. Thus, they would have been especially embarrassed by an inability to present a full slate of candidates to their fellow Republicans in the September primary. A lack of candidates would have been a sure sign that the vote-getting power of the Republican image is still slight...
...Attorney General said that the "wide gap between the thinking of the leaders, so called, and the members" is the Republican Party's greatest problem. To revive the party, he indicated, it necessary to remove some of the GOP's leaders...