Alf Landon Quotes
I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.
Krebs, Albin. "Alf Landon, G.O.P. Standard-Bearer, Dies at 100." The New York Times, 13 Oct. 1987, p. A1.
The liberals of the Republican party had been the powerful and often dominant wing of the party since Theodore Roosevelt had instituted his reformism. Rockefeller was trying to maintain its preeminence inside the party against the then new Republican extremists led by Barry Goldwater. He lost at the convention, as Goldwater was nominated as the Presidential candidate. He was trounced in the general election because of his extreme form of Conservatism. However, while the extreme right wingers lost the election, they had won control of the Republican Party that defined Republicanism for decades thereafter as a conservative movement. They would make “liberalism” a dirty word, and the party did not concern itself with human need much thereafter while fighting the change and globalization that was beginning.
After Turkey’s defeat in WWI, some Turkish leaders like Riza Nur wanted Turkey to become a colony of America. This they believed would hasten Turkey’s development and modernization.
One of Ferguson’s theses is that historical change often happens very rapidly.
Essentially Trollope claimed that English political parties are by their very nature, conservative, in the sense that they tend to resist great change. This has tended to be true in America and other democracies, but there are a number of exceptions. Where political parties are totally unsuccessful, they have little to lose. Likewise, when a political party becomes overwhelmingly dominant, it tends to overreach and try and make ideological change. However when there is true contest among the parties, they tend to be conservative in the sense that even if they are liberal parties, they do not move in extreme ways.
He had just finished itemizing the poor economic performance of the Republicans under George W. Bush and comparing it with the thriving economy and millions of job opportunities created by the Democrats under William Clinton.
In China, the religious activities of the Missionaries never really lead to the many troubles between the missionaries and the Chinese. It was their activities in the non-religious arenas articulated here by Denby.
Alfred Mossman Landon was an American politician who served as the twenty-sixth Governor of Kansas, a position he held from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, but was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
