Rightward Bound: The Rise of Conservatism in Postwar America

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1 Rightward Bound: The Rise of Conservatism in Postwar America

2 Rightward Bound : The Rise of Conservatism in Postwar America

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4 RIGHTWARD BOUND: THE RISE OF CONSERVATISM IN POSTWAR AMERICA Introduction: Helms, Reagan and the Great Reversal I. The Wilderness Years, Conservatism in a Liberal Age The New American Right (1955) The Remnant Patron Saint: William F. Buckley Jr, National review (1955) YAF (1960) The Problem of Extremism Robert Welch and the JBS Lemuel Boulware and the Free Market Gospel II. A Choice, Not an Echo, The Conservative Takeover of the GOP F. Clifton White and Draft Goldwater Campaign Suburban Warriors Rockefeller, Goldwater and the 1964 Convention III. Seeds of the Reagan Revolution, Toward the New Right Richard Viguerie and Direct Mail Toward the Christian Right Falwell, Ministers and Marchers (1965) Christian Schools Controversy ( ) Moral Majority (1979) A Time For Choosing Reagan (1966) The Tax Revolt Proposition 13 (1978) Conclusion: The Triumph and Agony of the American Right Legacies of the Reagan Revolution : Decline? Revival?

5 1964 Election Blue Indicates Johnson (Dem); Red Goldwater (Rep)

6 Jesse Helms--Manage and On-Air Editorialist, WRAL Raleigh, NC

7 Jesse Helms BecomesNorth Carolina s First Republican Senator in the 20th Century (1972)

8 1972 Election

9 Reagan Campaign (1980)

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11 RIGHTWARD BOUND: THE RISE OF CONSERVATISM IN POSTWAR AMERICA Introduction: Helms, Reagan and the Great Reversal I. The Wilderness Years, Conservatism in a Liberal Age The New American Right (1955) The Remnant Patron Saint: William F. Buckley Jr, National review (1955) YAF (1960) The Problem of Extremism Robert Welch and the JBS Lemuel Boulware and the Free Market Gospel II. A Choice, Not an Echo, The Conservative Takeover of the GOP F. Clifton White and Draft Goldwater Campaign Suburban Warriors Rockefeller, Goldwater and the 1964 Convention III. Seeds of the Reagan Revolution, Toward the New Right Richard Viguerie and Direct Mail Toward the Christian Right Falwell, Ministers and Marchers (1965) Christian Schools Controversy ( ) Moral Majority (1979) A Time For Choosing Reagan (1966) The Tax Revolt Proposition 13 (1978) Conclusion: The Triumph and Agony of the American Right Legacies of the Reagan Revolution : Decline? Revival?

12 Nixon and Rockefeller

13 Daniel Bell et al., The New American Right (1955)

14 Buckley--Modern Conservatism s Patron Saint

15 National Review

16 William F. Buckley, Jr.

17 JBS Founder Robert Welch

18 YAF Pro-War Rally (1968)

19 Lemuel Boulware

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21 Goldwater (1964)

22 Sen. Barry Goldwater

23 The Conscience of a Conservative (1960)

24 YAF Button (1964)

25 Grassroots Organizing for Goldwater--Phoenix (1964)

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29 Goldwater

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32 Goldwater Campaign, 1964

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34 Alice Moore--West Virginia Textbook Fight

35 Anita Bryant

36 NEW RIGHT DIRECT MAIL CAMPAIGNS From the Conservative Caucus, signed by Howard Phillips: Dear Friend: I think you will appreciate, more than most Americans, what I am sending you. I have enclosed two flags: the red, white, and blue of Old Glory and the white flag of surrender. I want to show you, by these two flags, what is at stake for America under the SALT II Treaty with Russia. If the U.S. Senate ratifies SALT II (the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty negotiated by Kremlin Boss Leonid Brezhnev with Jimmy Carter) it will mean the permanent surrender of the United States of America to the military superiority of the Soviet Union. You and I must choose and the Senate must decide whether we will personally accept the White Flag of Surrender as America s banner. Or, whether we are prepared to work and sacrifice to keep Old Glory perpetually raised on high.

37 NEW RIGHT DIRECT MAIL CAMPAIGNS From Americans for LIFE signed by Ohio state representative Donald E. Buz Lukens: "Dear Friend: Please take a second right now to look at the outrageous pro-abortion political propaganda I ve enclosed. And then help me STOP THE BABY KILLERS by signing and mailing the enclosed anti-abortion postcards to your U.S. Senators. (You ll find a list of all U.S. Senators on the back of that sickening baby killer propaganda.)"

38 III. Seeds of the Reagan Revolution, Toward the New Right Richard Viguerie and Direct Mail Toward the Christian Right Falwell, Ministers and Marchers (1965) Christian Schools Controversy ( ) Moral Majority (1979) A Time For Choosing Reagan (1966) The Tax Revolt Proposition 13 (1978) Conclusion: The Triumph and Agony of the American Right Legacies of the Reagan Revolution : Decline? Revival?

39 Billy Graham and Martin Luther King (1957)

40 Rev. Jerry Falwell

41 The Thomas Road Baptist Church--Then and Now

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45 Hard Hat Riot (1970)

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49 Howard Jarvis, leader of Prop 13 Campaign

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55 Hoover Roosevelt

56 Unemployment Rate as percent of civilian labor force as percent of civilian private non-farm labor force Year Source: Historical Statistics of the U.S., Millennial Edition, Vol. 2, (2006)

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58 Opposition to Prop 13

59 Reagan For Governor (1966)

60 Buckley After Making Conservatism Fun (1967)

61 The Reagans in 1964

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