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-Opposition to New Deal policies first takes shape as the American Liberty League.
-Led by conservative Democrats such as Al Smith, it fades after Roosevelt's 1936 landslide and disbands in 1940.
- Businessmen begin organizing their opposition especially to labor unions.[9

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-President Roosevelt calls his opponents "conservatives" as a term of abuse, they reply that they are "true liberals".
-Most publishers favor Republican moderate Alf Landon for president.
-In the nation's 15 largest cities the newspapers that editorially endorsed Landon represented 70% of the circulation, while Roosevelt won 69% of the actual voters.

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-Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court alienates conservative Democrats; most newspapers which supported FDR in 1936 oppose the plan, with many warning it was a prelude to dictatorship.
-Conservative Republicans (nearly all from the North) and conservative Democrats (most from the South), form the Conservative Coalition and block most new liberal proposals until the 1960s.
-The Conservative Manifesto (originally titled "An Address to the People of the United States") rallies the opposition to Roosevelt.

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-Medical missionary Walter Judd (1898–1994) enters Congress (1943–63) and defines the conservative position on China as all-out support for the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and opposition to the Communists under Mao.
-Judd redoubled his support after the Nationalists in 1949 fled to Formosa (Taiwan).
-The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is founded in Washington "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom.

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-Deep South Democrats led by Strom Thurmond split from the National Democratic Party to form the pro-segregation States' Rights Democratic Party or Dixiecrat party.
-They are protesting support for civil rights legislation in the party platform and make Thurmond their nominee for president in the 1948 election.
-Nearly all return to the Democratic party in 1949.[34]
Scholar Richard M. Weaver publishes Ideas Have Consequences, which influences intellectuals to question sophistic interpretations of literature

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In June 1987, President Ronald Reagan spoke at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate in view of the Berlin Wall, and delivered a message to Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader at the time.

We welcome change and openness, for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty, the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable and would advance drama- dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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new video loaded: Watch Reagan's 1987 'Tear Down This Wall' Speech transcript In June 1987, President Ronald Reagan spoke at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate in view of the Berlin Wall, and delivered a message to Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader at the time.

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-In securing the Republican Party presidential nomination, Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower leads moderate and liberal Republicans to victory over Sen. --Robert A. Taft, the conservative champion.[43] Ike then wins the presidency in a landslide by denouncing the failures of the Truman Administration in terms of "Korea, Communism and Corruption.

-Four major works of intellectual history that would influence conservatism are published Daniel J. Boorstin's The Genius of American Politics, Peter Viereck's Conservatism: From John Adams to Churchill, Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind and Robert Nisbet's Quest for Community
-Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is founded by libertarian journalist Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) to counter the growing spread of collectivism; its original name was Intercollegiate Society of Individualists.

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CBS Reports (1964): "D-Day Plus 20 Years - Eisenhower Returns to Normandy"

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-Vermont C. Royster (1914–1996) becomes editor of the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal (1958 to 1971).
-He wins two Pulitzer Prizes for his conservative interpretation of economic and political news.
-Conservatives try economic populism to appeal to blue collar workers forced to join labor unions.

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The American press and the revolutionary economy (1974) | ARCHIVES

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-Conservatives are angered when GOP presidential nominee Richard Nixon strikes a deal with liberal leader Nelson Rockefeller. -Nixon agrees to put all 14 of Rockefeller's demands in the party platform, including promises that the executive branch be totally reorganized and that Rockefeller's liberal policies on economic growth, medical care for the aged and civil rights be included.
-Led by Goldwater, conservatives vow to organize at the grass roots and take control of the GOP.

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Death of a Statesman: President Nixon's state funeral

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June: Senator Everett Dirksen (R-IL) plays a key role in passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to end segregation, but Goldwater joins Southern Democrats in voting against it.[79]

In the 1964 presidential election, Goldwater only won his home state of Arizona and five states in the Deep South
Jul: George Wallace gives a speech condemning the Civil Rights Act of 1964, claiming that it would threaten individual liberty, free enterprise and private property rights and that "The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ some pinknik social engineers in Washington, D.C., to figure out what to do with it."[80]
July: Goldwater defeats liberal Republicans Rockefeller to win the GOP presidential nomination and launch a conservative crusade.

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Richard Nixon wins a landslide reelection, carrying 49 states against anti-war liberal George McGovern. Suspicious of Democratic trickery, Nixon sends agents to bug the Democratic National Headquarters, then covers up his tracks when they are caught in the Watergate scandal.
Phyllis Schlafly forms the "STOP (Stop Taking Our Privileges) ERA" movement; it blocks passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).[106]
Robert L. Bartley (1937–2003) becomes editor of the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal; he retires in 2002 after writing and supervising tens of thousands of editorials taking a conservative position on economic and political issues. He is called "the most influential editorial writer" of his day.[107]