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principle, and he offered vision. Freedom -- he spoke of freedom:
freedom from the government's
increasing demands on the family purse, freedom from the
government's increasing usurpation of
individual rights and responsibilities, freedom from the leaders who
told us the price of world
peace is continued acquiescence to totalitarianism. He was ahead of
his time. When he ran for
president, he won six states and lost 44. But his candidacy worked as
a precursor of things to
come.
A new movement was stirring. And in the 1960's Young Americans
for Freedom is born; National
Review gains readership and prestige in the intellectual community;
Human Events becomes a
major voice on the cutting edge. In the '70s the anti-tax movement
begins. Actually, it was much
more than an anti-tax movement, just as the Boston Tea Party was
much more than an anti-tax initiative. In the late '70s, Proposition 13
and the Sagebrush Rebellion; in 1980, for the first time
in 28 years, a Republican Senate is elected; so, may I say, is a
conservative president. In 1984, that
conservative administration is reselected in a 49-state sweep. And the
day the votes came in, I
thought of Walt Whitman: "I hear America singing."
This great turn from left to right was not just a case of the pendulum
swinging. First, the left held