| ID | 128002 |
| Title Proper | GOP's identity crisis |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Saunders, Paul J |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | IN 1958, after the Republican Party suffered a stinging defeat in the midterm elections that compounded the 1954 loss of its briefly held control of Congress, Whittaker Chambers sent a letter to William F. Buckley Jr. Buckley, who had founded National Review three years earlier, was trying to create a conservative insurgency. Like many other conservatives, including Ronald Reagan, he revered Chambers for his searing break with Communism and his exposure of Alger Hiss as a Soviet agent, which he chronicled in his memoir Witness. Chambers had warned the youthful Buckley against consorting with the radical Right, arguing that politicians such as Senator Joseph McCarthy discredited rather than bolstered a fledgling conservative movement. |
| `In' analytical Note | National Interest vol. , No.130; Mar-Apr 2014: p.9-19 |
| Journal Source | National Interest vol. , No.130; Mar-Apr 2014: p.9-19 |
| Key Words | Republican Party ; Midterm Elections ; Communism ; GOP ; Identity Crisis ; Dwight Eisenhower |