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...political terms, Humphrey's value is no less potent with the nomination of Barry Goldwater than it would have been had Rockefeller or Scranton been the nominee; it is in fact, probably greater. As a Northern liberal, staunch friend of the Negro, strong supporter of labor, and articulate internationalist, it is a well-worn argument that Humphrey would have shorn up Johnson's left flank in the North-east had a moderate Republican governor been the opposition...
...went well beyond the 1960 Republican platform. It approved a platform of conservatism in the word's dictionary sense, promising tightfisted fiscal policy, deploring pervasive federal influence, and urging local action to deal with local problems. Foreign-policy planks have a distinctive hard-line look about them, promising staunch stands against Communist threats, expressing general skepticism of the idea that the Soviet Union has relaxed in any way in its ideological aim of worldwide Communist dominance, insisting on much harder bargains with the U.S.S.R. as the price of any East-West "accommodation." Principal planks...
...forget that Goldwater has now voted "no" on three recent major bills to reach the Senate: the civil rights bill, the trade expansion act, the test ban agreement. These bills could not have passed without staunch Republican backing. Mr. Goldwater is merely doing some wishful thinking when he claims to be in the mainstream of Republican thought...
...least one small part of the vast journalistic empire sees Goldwater as a man-not a monster; with normal dedicated followers-not lunatics; as a staunch Republican who really believes what he preaches-not a showman out to impress the press; and finally, as an honest, but perhaps too frank gentleman who has been mercilessly treated by the mass media...
...staunch Tory, Sir Alec can always be counted on for sharp criticism of Labour's nationalization proposals and for somewhat softer attacks on its planning ideas--for the Tories have their plans too. As a former Foreign Minister Sir Alec has made foreign and defense policy his chief issue. He promises to retain an independent nuclear deterrent, even if it is only the U.S.'s Polaris submarines. And he would dearly like to bring about some kind of rapprochement between Russia and the United States, like the one that helped Macmillan so much in 1959. But popularity polls show little...