Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overwhelming victory of Goldwaterites at last month's Young Republican Convention in Omaha has led to a widespread misconception that the YR National Federation was the scene of ideological struggles. A brief talk with any state delegate of reasonable political acumen, however, will reveal that the basic issue was an intra-party factionalism that had little to do with ideology...
...party." The Californian's growing popularity was glaringly evident earlier in the week, when 13 Western Governors-eleven of them Republicans-met in the village of West Yellowstone, Mont., just across the Wyoming border from Old Faithful. Fresh from an enthusiastic reception from the conservative Young Republicans in Omaha, Reagan breezed into the Yellowstone meeting "like a man on a white charger," as McCall put it. "He's the hottest piece of political property the Republican Party has going...
...complained one top national Republican, "they spit in it." The metaphor may have been a little crude, but it could hardly have described more exactly relations between the national G.O.P. organization and the Young Republican National Federation. After a week of attempted handholding with a Y.R. convention in Omaha last week, senior Republicans may well have decided that it is easier to get along with Democrats...
...Want Reagan!" Though Goldwater was their hero, California's Ronald Reagan was obviously their new political sex symbol. As Reagan entered the cavernous Omaha Sports Arena for the final night's speechmaking, applause quickly turned into a fevered five-minute chant of "We want Reagan! We want Reagan!" The Governor's speech, a pallid recitation of his administration's accomplishments contrasted with the "non-accomplishments" of the Johnson Administration, was interrupted more than 20 times for further applause, and as he left the hall, the delegates resumed their chant: "We want Reagan! We want Reagan...
President Johnson, speaking at Omaha in June 1966, argued that "What happens in South Vietnam will determine--yes, it will determine--whether ambitious and aggressive nations can use guerrilla warfare to conquer their weaker neighbors." The Administration views the underdeveloped world as a dry tinderbox of social and economic injustice ruled by weak and inept regimes; it believes that a spark from China may engulf the whole third world in revolutionary flames; it fears the emergency of increasing numbers of "regimes responsive to Peiping's will." How tenable are these views of "wars of national liberation...