Word: reagan
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...Nixon's losses in both years left the field open for the increasing noisy and powerful radical right. The California right was decisive in winning the Republican presidential nomination for Barry Goldwater, and today it seems about to win another prize; the gubernatorial nomination for former movie actor Ronald Reagan...
Actor Ronald Reagan, leading contender for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in California, got a tough competitor last week. He is big, bluff George Christopher, a persuasive campaigner who served with distinction as San Francisco's Mayor from...
...northern California's biggest independent dairy distributors. A city supervisor for ten years before becoming mayor, Christopher made his political personality as familiar to northern Californians as his milk bottles. He was a leading Rockefeller supporter in the 1964 presidential primary, whereas Southern California's Reagan made a name as a Goldwater speechmaker-a difference that Christopher emphasized, along with Reagan's lack of administrative experience, on a ten-city, hat-tossing tour last week...
Though he has not yet announced his candidacy, Reagan, 54, has spent the last year drumming up support. Thus a current opinion poll shows Reagan 10% ahead of Christopher among Republican voters. Yet a poll of Republican and Democratic voters showed that Christopher-if nominated-would run 13.4% ahead of incumbent Democratic Governor Pat Brown, while Reagan's margin would be only...
When he spoke of political allies and opponents, I expected him to drop names--to Lyndon me and Barry me to distraction. But he played it straight, used last names for everyone including himself (except "Ronnie Reagan"), talking of them all with an intimacy that was obvious but inoffensive. He discussed executive responsibility during Presidential disability and said he wasn't surprised that Johnson was doing so much from the hospital. "There's a difference in the nature of the men. Johnson's restless; he always wanted to be doing everything. Eisenhower had a military background, so he delegated jobs...