09 Jan 2013, 8:08 am
Nice article on Nixon and his political life as a Republican.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/09/opinion/stanley-nixon-at-100/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
Maybe we should retire the phrase Rockefeller Republicans and adopt Nixonian Republicans?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/09/opinion/stanley-nixon-at-100/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
Nixon also did his best to court conservatives, but his instinct was always to anchor himself in the rhetorical center. As president, his ambition to build a permanent New Majority depended upon walking a line between the radicalism of the left and the racialism of the far right.
Maybe we should retire the phrase Rockefeller Republicans and adopt Nixonian Republicans?
