Word: gop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Party's numerical representation in the Senate and the House "is in a worse state than in the depths of the depression." Chafee said to an audience of Young Republicans at the Freshman Union. Nor could Chafee fore see any substantial gains for the GOP in either legislative branch next year...
...review of the men he has chosen to be his administrative assistants and political advisors," says Shaddeg of the former Senator, "suggests that Goldwater always sought people personally loyal to him and willing to serve him without question or contradiction." Thus, Dean Burch was selected as GOP national chairman because Goldwater felt Ray Bliss-the man who has since replaced Burch-"could not be trusted...
Repeatedly, for example, Shaddeg declares that Goldwater the Presidential Candidate was a different man from Goldwater the Senator. But he never says very much about the difference. Caught between his friendship for Goldwater (to whom the book is dedicated "with affection and admiration") and the fact of the horrendous GOP failure, Shaddeg keeps his criticism, vague and muted...
...hero must not only want victory: he must lust after it. Kennedy, Roosevelt, Truman in '48, all drove themselves relentlessly. Johnson, as we all know, was and is a man obsessed. Goldwater was obsessed too, but with his fuzzy Conservatism and his supposed enemies in the GOP, not with the Presidency
That editor Thomas E. Petri was badly misquoted is beside the point now; as with the book, we would rather dismiss past problems and concentrate on looking ahead. Our purpose is to help the GOP build itself into a relevant political force for the future...