Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voted "no" on three recent major bills to reach the Senate: the civil rights bill, the trade expansion act, the test ban agreement. These bills could not have passed without staunch Republican backing. Mr. Goldwater is merely doing some wishful thinking when he claims to be in the mainstream of Republican thought...
...Real Concern." Even Goldwater's harshest critics agreed that he was taking his stand on the basis of conviction, letting the political chips fall where they might. But his vote did demonstrate dramatically just how far he is removed from the mainstream of U.S. and Republican Party thinking...
...Since Goldwater defeated all the so-called "mainstream" Republicans in California, they should wake up and realize that they are not in the mainstream but are on the left bank of that stream. We mainstream Republicans can see the futility of the U.N. and the vitality of our free enterprise system being sapped through Washington. We are tired of being made the "goat" all over the world...
...responsible for giving every American a fair chance at a share of the good life; responsible for underlining the injunctions of the Constitution and the Declaration of Inde pendence; to put solid flesh on those noble words that all men are created equal." In that statement, Scranton reflected the mainstream of national Republican thinking on civil rights as evidenced, also last week, by Senator Everett Dirksen's leadership in achieving cloture against a segregationist Democratic filibuster (see cover story...
...made party loyalty his gospel. But his dedicated followers have gone too far and worked too hard to accept an eleventh-hour defeat. Thus, as the situation stood last week, the G.O.P.'s probable course was to accept Goldwater, rally behind him, and work to influence him toward mainstream positions...