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Speaking from his Maine home, Muskie described the Republicans' "politics of fear" as saying, "You are encircled by monstrous dangers. Give up power over your freedom so we may protect...
...elastic blanket covering a huge bed, strangely cohabited by "the northeastern Establishment," the more inflamed students and the militant blacks. The term radical liberal is bitterly resented by many as an effort to smear liberalism with the unpopular tar of radicalism. Other Agnew critics ridicule his concoction as a monstrous juncture of utterly incompatible political types. Both the resentment and the ridicule are essentially justified...
...fair, Agnew did not invent the guilt-by-verbal-association form of terminological confusion. Some years ago, the phrase "radical conservative" was used in both liberal and radical circles. This horrid hybrid, radical conservative, every bit as monstrous as radical liberal, was supposed to describe activist conservatives, such as members of the John Birch society, who were inclined to ideologize their principles and who exhibited some stylistic similarities to leftist radicals. People have called themselves "radical conservatives," meaning that their conservatism was fundamental and thoroughgoing. Similarly, a man might -though few, if any, have done so in recent years-call...
...Hooray for Lindbergh [Sept. 14]! Sure we hated Hitler. Why didn't we hate Stalin also? He was equally mean, murderous and monstrous...
...Peking, exiled Head of State Norodom Sihanouk, a prince of the Khmer line who abdicated the throne in 1955 to get closer to his people, declared the republic a "monstrous swindle...