“I’m convinced that the American mind is a conservative mind,” says Arizona’s Goldwater, who has suddenly arrived (after his major Senate speech denouncing Eisenhower Republicanism ...

Both were first proposed—and implemented—by President Dwight Eisenhower, the general who led the Allies in Europe to victory over the Nazi regime and successfully balanced the federal budget ...

He was Dwight Eisenhower’s closest Cabinet friend ... Midwesterner Humphrey was a proud conservative who believed—and went far toward proving— that individual initiative could best thrive ...