For example, in 1994 New York’s Republican senator, Alfonse D’Amato, said of Whitewater, “This is worse than Watergate” (Dallas News, November 7, 1996); in 1996 House Speaker Newt Gingrich, even though he engaged in similar practices, called Clinton’s White House fund-raising activities “worse than the Watergate scandal” (ABC News, World News Tonight, March 6, 1997); and according to Monica Crowley, Richard Nixon said Whitewater was “worse” because “in Watergate, we didn’t have profiteering, and we didn’t have a body” (referring to the suicide of Vince Foster). Monica Crowley, Nixon in Winter (New York: Random House, 1998), 312.
Peter Baker, The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trail of William Jefferson Clinton (New York: Scribner, 2000), 19.
Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis (Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 1975), 170.
See Goldwater v. Ginsberg, 414 F.2d 324 (1969).
Notes, telephone conversation with Senator Barry M. Goldwater, November 1994.
Correspondence with Senator Goldwater about our project is among his papers at the Arizona Historical Foundation.
Robert G. Vaughan, “Transparency—The Mechanisms: Open Government and Accountability,” Issues of Democracy (electronic journal of the U.S. Department of State, vol. 5, no. 2, August 2000) at http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0800/ijde/vaughn.htm.
Chapter One: How Conservatives Think
Ramesh Ponnuru, “Getting to the bottom of this ‘neo’ nonsense: Before you talk about conservatives, know what you’re doing,” National Review (June 16, 2003).
Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (Washington: Regnery, 2001), 8.
George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America (Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1998), xiii–xv.
Jonah Goldberg, “What Is ‘Conservative’? We’re Comfortable with Contradiction,” National Review Online (May 11, 2005) at http://nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200505111449.asp.
Michael K. Deaver (ed.), Why I Am a Reagan Conservative (New York: Morrow, 2005), xv.
Frank S. Meyer, In Defense of Freedom and Related Essays (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1996), 155.
Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, 89.
Franklin Foer, “Ur-Conservative,” Washington Monthly (October 2004), 54.
Anonymous, “Santorum: ‘Conservatism Is Common Sense,’” Human Events (August 1, 2005), 3.
A less than exhaustive search of these conservative publications revealed a number of references to conservatism as an ideology. For example, the December 11, 1995, National Review discusses “making conservatism the ideology of Western revival”; a December 31, 1999, Human Events refers to Reagan’s “ideological conservatism”; the August/September 2003 American Spectator states “America is moving rapidly toward conservatism as its prevailing ideology and the Republican Party as its governing party”; a December 20, 2004, issue of the Weekly Standard refers to “the elasticity of conservative ideology”; and the January 13, 2003, American Conservative asked how conservatism turned into an ideology (the cold war, they respond). Suffice it to say there is no rigid conservative ideology on whether or not conservatism is an
