Word: reagan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absent resident of California, I was overwhelmed by the news of Ronald Reagan's victory. The contest pitted vigor and a constructive campaign against a stagnant administration and a campaign based on the destruction of character. My faith has been restored in the "ignorant" voting public-though eight years of education was necessary...
...task is to erase the aura of narrow exclusivity that it acquired during Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign, and to establish itself as a broad-based party with ample room for ideological differences and leaders as far apart as a Rockefeller and California's Governor-elect Ronald Reagan. If that prescription seemed predictable, they did not agree on it without engaging in some caustic casuistry that did little to help the party or the disputants...
...broad green lawn fronting the cottage. "Personally, I would not have chosen the word consensus.* I was just a little allergic to the previous association of the word. But I agree the Governors should reach an agreement on programs." Pointedly, both Rocky and Romney expressed the belief that Ronald Reagan would agree to agree. Rocky still did not think that consensus was that inappropriate a word. "Johnson was pretty successful at it," he said, but conceded: "If we are going to have agreement, there's no sense using words that are divisive...
...Vague Letter. That semantic spat settled, another divisive word promptly popped up to plague the G.O.P. This time it came from Reagan. Asked by a television interviewer whether the party should nominate in 1968 a man who had not backed the 1964 ticket, Reagan said: "Well, a lot of that would deal with whether the individual repented or not. I don't think that a convention would support someone who stayed aloof or who actually opposed the will of the party and then was completely unregenerate...
...also commented on the use of public relations and advertising firms by candidates. "I am more concerned about the election of someone like Charles Percy than Ronald Reagan," he said. At least with Reagan there was no attempt at subtlety or deception, he said. "They just made him right before our eyes," he said, so the fault lies with the electorate and not with the public relations people...