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...depths of disaster, the big pitch of the party consensus was to remove not only Barry Goldwater but all of his henchmen from any position of power in the Republican hierarchy...
Spitting Match. Before Republican moderates undertake the bruising task of kicking Goldwaterites out of the party, they ought to reach some consensus on where they themselves stand. In the days immediately following the election, such a consensus was obviously lacking. One result was an unseemly longdistance spitting match between former Vice President Richard Nixon and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. In Manhattan, Nixon held a press conference, called for party unity and a moratorium on intraparty "backbiting," then lashed out at Rocky for having given...
...there is a great change. In the past it was an area for a person to get out of, if he could afford it. Now it's a place to stay in." The Beautiful Cities. The urban renewal operation, always painful and not always a success, requires a solid consensus of civic opinion and energy. In Buffalo, for instance, a $15 million renewal program has been stalled in its tracks for a year and a half while politicians bicker over which developers should get the job. But most renewal is still slum clearance, and slum clearance has critics aplenty...
What had happened was not so much Johnson but Goldwater. Though the Arizona Senator's candidacy has no doubt destroyed the Republican Party, it has also incapacitated the Democratic Party by infusing it with so much love, so much consensus and so much ideological mushiness that no one will ever again be able to mean by "I am a Democrat" anything more than "I was against Goldwater...
...crushed Alf Landon--but for the President's performance in the months ahead, for the fulfillment of the promise that his landslide gives. Will Johnson, like Roosevelt, find his massive mandate more of a hindrance than a help? Will he choose to compromise away his program to hold his consensus? Or will he move boldly and artfully to transform his huge plurality into the energetic legislation the country needs and has waited for so long...