Epstein Secrets

the Republican Coordinating Committee. Its members were a cross-section of the party: Eisenhower and four former presidential candidates — Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Alfred Landon and Thomas Dewey —~ as well as gover- nors, members of Congress, state legislators, and party leaders. Eisenhower was a key to the co

n in 1965, the Republicans. were in much worse shape than in 2013: President Lyndon Johnson had won a Jand- slide re-election over Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, and the Democrats held large majorities in both houses of Congress and the statehouses. The party was deeply divided between “moder- ates,” such as

sons, one would think that even Vladimir Putinife=99s might be reluctant to enter into another war not directly on Russia4,=804,s borders. But then Richard Nixon, another Cold=Warrior, as well as considered one of the most duplicitous president in U.=. history actually knew that the U.S. air war in Southeast

led. Not only =hat, they are losing support among GOP voters. This =s nothing less than a failure of conservatism itself. After Buckley,=Reagan and Goldwater had jettisoned much of their earlier hard-edged conservatism, there should have be an intellectual reformation on the American r=ght in the 1990s.

ars of Obama to the Johnson years, or even to the Nixon years, and especially to the Reagan and Clinton y

ld carry with it large numbers of House members and Senators. Reagan, they thought, would prove to be more devastating to Republicans than either the Goldwater defeat of 1964 or the Ford defeat of 1976. As you all know, none of this happened. We handily defeated Carter, even though we were behind in the pol