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35-46	October 2003 Article We're in the army now: The G.O.P.'s plan to militarize our culture By Kevin Baker SEE ALSO: Bush, George W.; Military leadership; Military policy; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
28	June 1997 Readings/Article Newt's latest victory By Newt Gingrich SEE ALSO: Mongolia; 1993-; Gingrich, Newt; Oratory; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
18	September 1996 Readings/Article Burned by Newt? By Dale Washam SEE ALSO: Claims vs. Newt Gingrich; Contracts; Washam, Dale; Gingrich, Newt; Plagiarism; Political candidates; The Republican Party; Trials, litigation, etc.; Washington (State) PDF IMAGES
19	July 1996 Readings/Article The contract, part two By Bob Walker and Jim Nussle SEE ALSO: 1993-; Political ethics; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
17-19	March 1996 Readings/Article The real Republican revolution By T.R. Goldman SEE ALSO: Lobbying; Lobbyists; 1993-; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
23-24	January 1996 Readings/Article The right's new abortion fight By William Bennett SEE ALSO: Abortion; Pro-life movement; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
23	January 1996 Readings/Article The G.O.P. hones its message SEE ALSO: Bumper stickers; Political slogans; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
12	December 1995 Readings/Article Party unity, Newt's way By Ralph Hellman SEE ALSO: Career as legislator; Gingrich, Newt; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
31-42	March 1995 Article Reactionary chic: How the nineties right recycles the bombast of the sixties left By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Conservatism; 1963-1969; 1993-; Gingrich, Newt; Oratory; Radicalism; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
43-53	March 1995 Article A revolution, or business as usual? By William Kristol, Frank I. Luntz, Mike Murphy, James P. Pinkerton, Ralph Reed, and David Frum SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Caricatures and cartoons; Leadership; 1993-; Gingrich, Newt; Public Relations; Reed, Ralph; The Republican Party; United States. Congress; Kristol, William PDF IMAGES
6-9	January 1995 Notebook/Article Thunder on the right By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: 1993-; The Republican Party; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
26-28	January 1993 Readings/Article Building a Christian G.O.P. SEE ALSO: Christianity and politics; Christians; The Republican Party PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
18	August 1992 Readings/Article The buying of the president SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Political corruption; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
14-15	July 1992 Readings/Article Twisting arms for the president By James R. (James Robert) Elliott and Peter Moles SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Marketing executives; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
37-48	July 1991 Article Does the White House want a domestic policy? By Jack Kemp, Kevin P. Phillips, Richard N. Bond, and William Janklow SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Bush, George; 1989-1993; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
26	February 1988 Readings/Article How Republicans “spread” AIDS By Chuck Rund SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Politics, Practical; The Republican Party; San Francisco PDF IMAGES
48-57	January 1988 Article The cultural contradictions of the G.O.P.: God and mannon on the campaign trail By Philip Weiss SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Caricatures and cartoons; Christianity and politics; Bush, George; Kemp, Jack; 1951-; 1988-; Robertson, Pat; Primaries; The Republican Party; Dole, Robert J. PDF IMAGES
21-23	December 1986 Readings/Article Party politics: Money changes everything By Thomas Byrne Edsall SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; The Democratic Party; 1981-1989; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
44	June 1984 Article Nicaragua and U.S. foreign policy, 1928 SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1923-1929; 1928; Nicaragua; Platforms; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
53-58	May 1984 Article If Pooh were president: A Tory's riposte to Reaganism By Henry Fairlie SEE ALSO: Conservatism; 1981-1989; The Republican Party; Tories, English PDF IMAGES
44-49	January 1984 Article The American conservatives By John Lukacs SEE ALSO: Conservatism; Liberalism; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
41-48	November 1976 Article Born-again Republicans By Murray Kempton SEE ALSO: 1974-1977; Republican National Convention (1976 : Kansas City, Mo.); The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
11	November 1973 Wraparound/Article The master plan behind the national debt By Taylor Branch SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Debtor and creditor; Debts, Public; 1969-1974; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
66-70	June 1973 Article Conservative chic By Kevin P. Phillips SEE ALSO: Aesthetics; Career as U.S. president; Conservatism; Liberalism; Middle class; 1969-1974; 1971-; Public opinion; The Republican Party; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
22-24	April 1973 Washington/Article The pleasures of defeat By Richard J. Whalen SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Caricatures and cartoons; Conservatism; The Democratic Party; Liberalism; 1969-1974; The Republican Party; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
60-68	November 1972 Article In a manner that must shame God himself By Kurt Vonnegut SEE ALSO: 1969-1974; 1972; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
41-130	November 1968 Article Miami Beach and Chicago By Norman Mailer SEE ALSO: Career as mayor of Chicago, Ill.; Career as U.S. presidential candidate, 1968; Chicago (Ill.); Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.); The Democratic Party; McCarthy, Eugene J.; Experience at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill.; Experience at the Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Fla.; McGovern, George S. (George Stanley); Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio); Miami Beach; 1951-; 1968; Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich); Mailer, Norman; Protest movements; Republican National Convention (1968 : Miami Beach, Fla.); The Republican Party; Daley, Richard J.; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Riots; Reagan, Ronald; Student movements PDF IMAGES
33-39	June 1968 Article The Iowa Republicans: Politics without passion By John Corry SEE ALSO: Iowa; Miami Beach; Nomination; Political conventions; Politics, Practical; Republican National Convention (1968 : Miami Beach, Fla.); The Republican Party; Republicans PDF IMAGES
21-26	January 1968 Article The road to Miami Beach By Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak SEE ALSO: 1963-1969; Primaries; Republican National Convention (1968 : Miami Beach, Fla.); The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
107-118	November 1967 Article The elusive general Gavin By Richard J. Whalen SEE ALSO: Career as presidential hopeful; Career in the military; The Democratic Party; Gavin, James M. (James Maurice); 1963-1969; 1968; The Republican Party; Views on Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PDF IMAGES
55-62	February 1967 Article George Romney: Holy and hopeful By William Vincent Shannon SEE ALSO: Career as governor of Michigan; Career as presidential hopeful; Romney, George W.; 1963-1969; 1968; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
98-107	February 1966 Washington insight/Article The American squirearchy By James Reichley SEE ALSO: Conservatism; 1963-1969; Politics and culture; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
37-45	January 1966 Article Lindsay, Kennedy, and the power struggle in New York By William Vincent Shannon SEE ALSO: Beame, Abe; Career as Democratic Party leader; Career as New York mayoral candidate; The Democratic Party; John V. Lindsay; Mayors; 1951-; Portraits; The Republican Party; Kennedy, Robert F. PDF IMAGES
56-63	January 1965 Article How to rebuild the two-party system By Seymour Martin Lipset SEE ALSO: Conservatism; The Democratic Party; 1963-1969; 1964; Political parties; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
41-47	June 1964 Article Brooke of Massachusetts: A Negro governor on Beacon Hill? By Edward R.F. Sheehan SEE ALSO: African American politicians; Attorneys general; Career in Massachusetts politics; Civil Rights; Brooke, Edward William; 1951-; Portraits; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
94-100	September 1963 Article A special duty for Republicans By John V. Lindsay SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. congressman; Civil Rights; Internal security; John V. Lindsay; 1961-1963; The Republican Party; Rules and practice; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
74-79	July 1963 Article Rockefeller's triple-threat brain trust By Alan L. Otten and Charles B. Seib SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Hinman, George; Governors; Lockwood, John E.; Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich); The Republican Party; Staff; Ronan, William J. (William John) PDF IMAGES
86-94	May 1963 Article What the GOP is doing in the South: And how the result may be—paradoxically—a more liberal Congress By Virginius Dabney SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Conservatism; The Democratic Party; Byrd, Harry Flood; 1951-; The Republican Party; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
76-87	September 1962 Article Texas politics in turmoil By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Career in Texas politics; Conservatism; The Democratic Party; Yarborough, Don; Governors; Connally, John Bowden; Tower, John G.(John Goodwin); Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1951-; The Republican Party; Blakley, William PDF IMAGES
86-91	May 1962 Public and personal/Article What makes Johnny (Cooper) walk? By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Cooper, John Sherman; 1961-1963; Political leadership; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
16-24	March 1962 The editor's easy chair/Article George Romney: The brightest horse in the stable By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Romney, George W.; 1961-1963; 1964; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
86-89	June 1961 Public and personal/Article Private talks with the ex-Ivy League By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Business and politics; Businessmen; 1961-1971; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
94-99	February 1961 Public and personal/Article The razor's edge for Nixon and the GOP By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Goldwater, Barry; Career in politics; 1961-1963; Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich); The Republican Party; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
96-101	October 1960 Public and personal/Article A better way to run our political conventions By William Smith White SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1953-1961; Platforms; Political conventions; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
44-49	December 1959 Article The Senate's wizard of ooze: Dirksen of Illinois By William Barry Furlong SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Dirksen, Everett McKinley; Leadership; 1951-; 1953-1961; Portraits; The Republican Party; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
39-45	August 1959 Article The New York Herald Tribune: What goes on here? By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Career in newspaper publishing; Whitney, John Hay; Newspaper publishing; Reid, Ogden R. (Ogden Rogers); Press, Political party; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
25-31	May 1959 Article Nelson Rockefeller's moral heritage By William Raymond Manchester SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Governors; 1951-; 1953-1961; Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich); Portraits; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
74-77	January 1959 Article What to expect from the new Congress By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Career in politics; Civil Rights; The Democratic Party; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Leadership; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1953-1961; The Republican Party; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Rayburn, Sam; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
73-78	September 1956 Article Why labor should vote Republican By Arthur Larson SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; Labor laws and legislation; Leadership; 1953-1961; The Republican Party; Trade-unions; United States. Congress; Working class PDF IMAGES
29-35	May 1956 Article Republican “giveaways”: The charges and the facts By Warren Unna SEE ALSO: Conservation of natural resources; Deregulation; Forest management; Forest reserves; Gas industry; Indian termination policy; Management; Multiple use; 1953-1961; National parks and reserves; Pasture, Right of; Privatization; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
29-35	April 1956 Article The politics of revenge By Samuel Lubell SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Ethnic relations; 1952-; 1953-1961; The Republican Party; Voting research PDF IMAGES
28	February 1956 Personal and otherwise/Article Silent Republicans By John Fischer SEE ALSO: 1953-1961; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
29-34	November 1955 Article The parties and foreign policy By Dean Acheson SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1945-1953; 1953-1961; The Republican Party; World politics PDF IMAGES
58-60	October 1955 Article Button, button: Or, how we elected Eisenhower By Arthur Hudson Parsons SEE ALSO: Campaign insignia; Campaign literature; Campaign management; Career in politics; Children and politics; Collectors and collecting; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); 1952-; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
23-29	August 1954 Article The fight for the Senate By William Smith White SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; Elections, 1954; 1953-1961; Politics, Practical; The Republican Party; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
19	May 1954 Personal and otherwise/Article Just friends By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; McCarthy, Joseph; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
23-28	January 1954 Article Ike's plan to stop a depression By Helen Hill Miller SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Depressions; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Economic forecasting; 1945-1960; 1953-1961; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
34-41	June 1953 Article The Republican prospects By Richard Halworth Rovere SEE ALSO: 1953-1961; The Republican Party; Voting research PDF IMAGES
52-55	January 1953 The easy chair/Article Preliminary forecast By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Leadership; 1952-; 1953-1961; The Republican Party; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
65-68	October 1952 The easy chair/Article An old steal refurbished By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: National parks and reserves; Pasture, Right of; Platforms; Public lands; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
27-32	June 1952 Article Warren of California By Gordon Scott Harrison SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Warren, Earl; Governors; 1945-1953; 1951-; 1952-; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
34-39	May 1952 Article Eisenhower and the GOP By Henry Cabot Lodge SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); 1945-1953; 1952-; Portraits; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
21-26	January 1952 Article Can Eisenhower save the GOP? By Gordon Scott Harrison SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); 1945-1953; 1952-; The Republican Party; Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso); Voting research PDF IMAGES
48-51	July 1951 The easy chair/Article Foul birds come abroad By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Lincoln, Abraham; Candidacy for U.S. president; Career in politics; MacArthur, Douglas; Military policy; 1945-1953; Political ethics; Quotations; The Republican Party; Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso) PDF IMAGES
74-80	April 1951 Article Getting right with Lincoln By David Herbert Donald SEE ALSO: Lincoln, Abraham; Influence; Legends; 1865-1933; 1945-1953; Political psychology; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
31-35	April 1950 Article How to elect a Republican By Herbert Agar SEE ALSO: The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
25-33	September 1948 Article President Dewey's strange bedfellows By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Career in politics; 1945-1953; 1948-; The Republican Party; Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund) PDF IMAGES
80	January 1947 Article I voted Republican, but . . . By S. Burton Heath SEE ALSO: 1945-1953; The Republican Party; Voting PDF IMAGES
592-598	May 1945 Personal and otherwise/Article The press: Friend and foe SEE ALSO: The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
133-136	January 1945 The easy chair/Article The easy chair By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Career in politics; 1944; The Republican Party; Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund) PDF IMAGES
132	December 1935 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise SEE ALSO: Antisemitism; Jews; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
513-523	October 1935 Article A word to the Republicans: The duty of an opposition party By Harold Joseph Laski SEE ALSO: Democracy; Opposition (Political science); Representative government and representation; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
484-491	September 1935 Article Back to states' rights By George Henry Soule SEE ALSO: Federal government; The Republican Party; State rights PDF IMAGES
289-297	February 1935 Article What will become of the Republicans? By George Henry Soule SEE ALSO: Political parties; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
409-418	March 1929 Article If Hoover fails By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Smith, Alfred E.; Career as presidential candidate; The Democratic Party; Hoover, Herbert; 1923-1929; 1928; The Republican Party; Xenophobia PDF IMAGES
415-421	September 1927 Article The sick donkey: Democratic prospects for 1928 By Walter Lippmann SEE ALSO: Smith, Alfred E.; Career as presidential hopeful; The Democratic Party; 1923-1929; 1928; Politics, Practical; Public opinion; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
133-136	June 1924 Editor's easy chair/Article Political superstitions By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1923-1929; 1924; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES

Sep 2006	Percentage of Republicans and Democrats, respectively, in October 1994 who said they were excited to vote that year: 45, 30 Percentage who said this in June about the 2006 midterm election: 30, 46	Harper's Index Source: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press (Washington)
Jul 2006	Percentage of Republicans who viewed “Hillary Clinton” favorably in an April poll: 16	Harper's Index Source: CNN (Washington)
Mar 2006	Percentage of Democrats and Republicans, respectively, who say the Iraq war was “worth fighting”: 4, 84	Harper's Index Source: M.I.T. Public Opinion Research Training Lab (Cambridge, Mass.)
Jan 2006	Margin by which total votes for Democrats in the last three Senate elections exceeded those for Republicans: 2,900,000 Number of seats won by Democrats and Republicans, respectively: 46, 56	Harper's Index Source: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
Nov 2004	Chance that a Republican president has not won the popular vote : 1 in 6	Harper's Index Source: Jimmy Carter Library & Museum (Atlanta)
Mar 2004	Number of the 420 demonstrators arrested at Philadelphia's 2000 Republican National Convention who were convicted : 23	Harper's Index Source: The R2K Legal Collective (Philadelphia)
Oct 2003	Year in which House Republicans thrice rejected an amendment to upgrade the U.S. electrical grid : 2001	Harper's Index Source: Office of Congressman Sam Farr
Oct 2003	Number of Virginia Republican Party officials fined this year for eavesdropping on Democratic Party conference calls : 3	Harper's Index Source: The Republican Party of Virginia (Richmond)
Apr 2003	Chances that a Democrat believes that "most" Republicans are prejudiced against African Americans: 2 in 5	Harper's Index Source: The Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)
Oct 2001	Number of people arrested at last year's Republican National Convention: 390	Harper's Index Source: Philadelphia Police Department
Oct 2001	Amount of campaign contributions that Sen. James Jeffords has returned since leaving the Republican Party in May: $17,470	Harper's Index Source: Office of Sen. James Jeffords (Washington)
Jul 2001	Number of the sixteen previous Republican presidents who experienced a recession during their first term in office: 15	Harper's Index Source: National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.)/ Harper's research
Feb 2001	Rank of the Republican Party among sixty brand names tested for customer loyalty in 1999: 60	Harper's Index Source: FCB Worldwide (N.Y.C.)
Oct 2000	Number of G.O.P. presidential conventions since 1911 with a larger percentage of black delegates than last summer's: 5	Harper's Index Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington)
Oct 2000	Percentage of G.O.P. delegates at the 1912 and 2000 conventions, respectively, who identified themselves as black: 6, 4.1	Harper's Index Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington)
Sep 2000	Number of incumbent Republican governors who have won the presidency since 1898: 0	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Aug 2000	Amount New Jersey's Camden police spent on riot gear in preparation for Philadelphia's GOP convention: $47,775	Harper's Index Source: Camden City Clerk's Office (Camden, N.J.)
Feb 2000	Number of the two memoirs published by GOP presidential candidates last year that use the phrase “toga party”: 2	Harper's Index Source: George W. Bush, A Charge to Keep, William Morrow &Company (N.Y.C.)/John McCain, Faith of My Fathers, Random House (N.Y.C.);
Nov 1999	Amount by which the President's ten-year defense budget exceeds that of House Republicans: $206,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Economic Policy Institute (Washington)
Oct 1999	Billions of gallons of water that the GOP reported released into a New Hampshire river in July for an Al Gore visit: 4	Harper's Index Source: Republican National Committee (Washington)
Oct 1999	Number of days last August that Iowa hosted both the GOP presidential straw poll and the National Hobo Convention: 1	Harper's Index Source: Britt City Chamber of Commerce (Britt, Iowa)/Iowa State Republican Party (Des Moines)
Aug 1999	Age at which Elizabeth Dole became a Republican: 39	Harper's Index Source: Elizabeth Dole for President Exploratory Committee (Arlington, Va.)
Jun 1999	Last year in which neither a Dole nor a Bush has appeared on the Republican presidential ticket: 1972	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Jan 1999	Percentage change since then in the number of Republican candidates endorsed by a union: +125	Harper's Index Source: AFL-CIO (Washington)
Sep 1998	Percentage change since 1991 in total Microsoft contributions to the Democratic and Republican parties: +460	Harper's Index Source: Center for Responsive Politics (Washington)
Jun 1998	Number of the 524 subpoenas issued in Rep. Dan Burton's campaign-finance investigation that have gone to Republicans: 9	Harper's Index Source: Democratic Office for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

September 25, 2008	Senator John McCain announced that fixing the economy was more important than politicking, suspended his campaign, and attempted without success to postpone his first debate with Senator Barack Obama, although he continued to run campaign advertisements, including one that declared him the winner of the debate, and appeared on CBS with Katie Couric. McCain then joined congressional leaders, including Obama, at the White House to discuss the stimulus package. “I didn't see any sign,” said Representative Barney Frank, “of our Republican colleagues paying any attention to him whatsoever.” “All he has done,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of McCain, “is stand in front of the cameras.”	Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith Source 1: Washington Post Source 2: Washington Post Source 3: The New York Times Source 4: Politico Source 5: The Los Angeles Times
September 23, 2008	Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president, visited New York City and met with world leaders from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Colombia, as well as Henry Kissinger and Bono, and agreed to speak to the press. “It was great,” she said.	Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith Source 1: CNN Source 2: MSNBC
September 4, 2008	Senator John McCain accepted the Republican Party's nomination for the presidency.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: KTLA.com
August 31, 2008	One million people fled New Orleans to avoid Hurric

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