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...heady awareness of opportunity that infects the entire G.O.P. assemblage is a measure of the distance the party has come since the dismal post-Goldwater days. When the Republican Governors met in Denver to conduct a post mortem on the 1964 election, the party was at its nadir. It had lost the presidency by the greatest popular margin in history. The Democrats had swollen 2-to-1 majorities in both the Senate and the House, and 33 of the nation's 50 Governors as well...
...days is to picture Harold Wilson in the buff, thus reflecting Britain's denuded estate. Though he frequently comes out looking quite cherubic, the cartoonists' jabs are just one of the painfully bare facts of life that Britain's Prime Minister has to face in the nadir of his popularity. As he leaves for Washington this week for his first talks in eight months with Lyndon Johnson, Wilson finds himself under fire from almost every direction. So bitter has the criticism become that Lord Gardiner, the Lord Chancellor, recently rose in the House of Lords and declared...
Nuclear Imperative. Though often thwarted, Johnson was hardly rendered ineffectual. Such are the powers of his office at home and abroad that even at the nadir of his presidency, he stirred complaints that he was becoming "King Lyndon." Historians and Congressmen alike began wondering whether the presidency had not grown too strong. Next month a group of historians led by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. will meet in Manhattan to consider that very subject. In the Senate, North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin began an inquiry into the division of federal powers, while Fulbright looked into the "overextension of executive powers...
Though such a reproach might barely have been noticed when Johnson was high in the polls, today, at the nadir of his popularity, it might be looked upon abroad as a vote of no confidence in all of his foreign policies. The President's current position, some members felt, is simply too weak to stand such a battering. Thus the resolution paradoxically became an even greater measure of Johnson's decline when it was blocked last week. Some such motion may very well pass the Senate this year, but it will probably be so mildly worded that even...
...brainwash' remark didn't make all that much difference. People were already looking for a reason to turn away." Most other G.O.P. strategists agree. From a commanding lead in the polls right after his impressive re-election victory in 1966, Michigan's Governor has reached a nadir; he is unlikely even to control the entire delegation from his own state. But Romney has been counted out before, only to stage a winning campaign. He seems determined to do so again in the primaries, and is already taking steps to soften the stiff, sanctimonious impression that...