Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WASHINGTON EVENING STAR: THE future of this country belongs not to the traditional conservatives, but to those who travel down the center, or even a bit to the left of center of the political road...
...such Old Guard Republicans as Ohio's John Bricker, Nevada's George Malone, Indiana's Harold Handley, California's Bill Knowland and West Virginia's Chapman Rever-omb who took the most sensational drubbings. Clearly the congressional Republican Party had a more middle-road look after the elections than before...
...their Republican opponents. Republican Hatfield best explained the meaning of personality to his party: "Let's face it. We had some turkeys, reactionary turkeys. I would except Goldwater because he's a sensational personality. But race-for-race, it's the middle-of-the-road Republican, in communication with the people, who can win, and it seems to me that this is our key to the future...
...President Eisenhower showed little interest in his party. Last week even loyal Eisenhower-Republican Senator Cliff Case of New Jersey was moved to comment on Ike's lack of "love of politics and the political game." Said Utah's G.O.P. National Committeeman Jerry Jones, himself a middle-road Republican: "We have no political leadership. Ike, with his aloofness from politics-his attitude of being above it all-has made us all just a bit ashamed to be politicians." When Ike finally entered the 1958 campaign, the damage was already done. Said an Iowa Republican scornfully...
...Complete Reversal." Could the G.O.P.'s defeat, a reporter asked, be blamed on "disenchantment with the Administration"? Ike's reply showed that the thumping his party took at the polls had baffled as well as hurt him. After he had preached his "middle-of-road" convictions for four years, he said, the voters had re-elected him, in 1956, by a "majority of, I think, well over 9,000,000 votes.* Now, here, only two years later, there is a complete reversal; and yet I do not see where there is anything that these people consciously want...