Word: roader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same point was made earlier by Edward S. Germain, a past president of the Berkeley student body and a third year law student here. Germain, who identified himself as a "middle-of-the roader," accused the Berkeley administration of making two major mistakes...
...From the past election, I learned that I am not a liberal: I am not even a middle-of-the-roader. I am a conservative, a flag-waving, Communist-hating, America-first conservative. In the next four years, if every one of us flag wavers takes it upon himself to bring one or two people around to his way of thinking, 1968 will tell a very different story...
...talent for deft deflation that is particularly effective when he sights in on his folksy cartoon image of Lyndon Johnson. His approach contrasts sharply with the generally aggressive comment of his cartoonist colleagues. "We get enough of the angry stuff," says Berry. He considers himself a "middle-of-the-roader" and prefers to keep his political preferences a secret for the ballot box. "I'm not really mad at anybody," he says. "Satire comes naturally to me, and I prefer to take potshots at anybody and anything...
...likely possibility that voters might not be able to distinguish between conservative Re- publicanism Taft-style, and Goldwater-style. Taft was honest enough to admit that he agreed with Goldwater in some areas, particularly fiscal. But he went on to insist that he was a "middle-of-the-roader on education, health and welfare, and a liberal on civil rights." Whether Taft had got the point across depended on the outcome of a cliff-hanging vote count...
...more wide open and more hopeful about '64. With Kennedy in the White House, Republican politicians were willing to think about gambling with Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater as a dramatic alternative. But now 1964 is anybody's race, and the G.O.P. may well enlist a middle-of-the-roader to challenge Johnson?Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, even Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton or Michigan's Governor George Romney. Those who had been shunning the race because they figured it was a lost cause anyway may now be entertaining second thoughts. The tip-off should come when the early-bird...