Word: tooism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-entrenched Democrats suffered from tired blood and intramural peevishness, and Candidate Ward campaigned on a broken record of me-tooism, echoing Nunn's opposition to a statewide open-housing law and new taxes. Neither contender openly courted Kentucky's segregationists, but both gleaned more votes from that quarter than Conservative Candidate Christian Glanz Jr., who was seeking 2% of the total vote in order to qualify his party for the 1968 presidential ballot and thereby qualify Alabama's George Wallace for a third-party spot. Nunn received 449,788 votes, Ward 423,189-and Glanz...
Wallace has already opened campaign headquarters in Montgomery's Ten-High Building. "If these two national parties continue on their present trend of liberalism and me-tooism, we'll be a candidate," he promises. "There is more grass-roots support for us than you can imagine. You just talk to the workingman-to steelworkers, taxi drivers, barbers and people who really run this country...
...must first recognize America as it is." Brooke's views of the U.S. largely echo Lyndon Johnson's. He lists the three great domestic problems as poverty, civil rights and the plight of the cities. At the risk of being accused of me-tooism, he urges Republicans to devise remedies that surpass the Great Society's in both volume and efficacy...
Near the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, veteran Actor Ronald Reagan, co-chairman of the Goldwater forces in California, appeared over national television and delivered a 30-minute speech. In it, Reagan served up some uncompromising conservative logic, plus a devastating denunciation of the welfare state, G.O.P. me-tooism, and Communist appeasement. At the same time, he provided just about the only dramatic moments in the whole, dreary Goldwater campaign...
...tangled white curls were damp with perspiration; his face was pale. The pouches beneath his eyes were dark; his voice was hoarse but strong. "Too long have we ridden the grey ghost of me-tooism," he said. "When the roll is called, I shall cast my vote for Barry Goldwater...