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| − | '''John Ashbrook''' was a leading [[conservative]] in the early 1970s as a member of the [[House of Representatives]]. He challenged and ran against President [[Richard Nixon]] in the 1972 presidential primary, paving the way for fellow [[conservative]] [[Ronald Reagan]]'s more successful challenge of incumbent President [[Gerald Ford]] in the 1976 primary. | + | '''John Ashbrook''' (1928-1982) was a leading [[conservative]] in the 1960s and 1970s as a member of the [[House of Representatives]]. He challenged and ran against President [[Richard Nixon]] in the 1972 presidential primary, paving the way for fellow [[conservative]] [[Ronald Reagan]]'s more successful challenge of incumbent President [[Gerald Ford]] in the 1976 primary. |
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| − | In John Ashbrook's announcement of his candidacy for president, he listed how Nixon had betrayed his campaign promises in 1968 and was governing like a [[liberal]] rather than like a [[conservative]]:<ref>http://www.4president.org/speeches/johnashbrook1972announcement.htm</ref>
| + | A veteran of the [[U.S.]] [[Navy]], he worked upon graduation of law school for the Johnstown Independent, a weekly newspaper that he father, also a Congressman, had founded in 1884. That gave him publicity to be elected in 1956 as a Republican to the Ohio General Assembly. He served it for two yaerd before being elected to [[Congress]] in 1960, where he served 22 years without interruption. He was one of the founders of the [[American Conservative Union]] and served as its chairman from 1966 to 1971. He was also one of the founders of the draft [[Barry Goldwater]] movement in 1963.<ref>http://www.ashbrook.org/about/ashbrook.html</ref> |
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| − | :He has led the drive to admit [[Red China]] into the [[United Nations]], and watched the cynical expulsion of the Republic of China from that body - though the government on Taiwan is one of America's oldest and closest allies, and despite the fact that he had pledged less than a year ago that we would never desert it. | + | John Ashbrook is best known for challenging [[Richard Nixon]] in the 1972 presidential primary. In Ashbrook's announcement of his candidacy for president, he listed how Nixon had betrayed his campaign promises in 1968 and was governing like a [[liberal]] rather than like a [[conservative]]:<ref>http://www.4president.org/speeches/johnashbrook1972announcement.htm</ref> |
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| | + | :He [Nixon] has led the drive to admit [[Red China]] into the [[United Nations]], and watched the cynical expulsion of the Republic of China from that body - though the government on Taiwan is one of America's oldest and closest allies, and despite the fact that he had pledged less than a year ago that we would never desert it. |
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| | :He has permitted our defenses to sink from a status of clear superiority to one of bare "sufficiency", and then still further to a level at which stark, irretrievable inferiority is less than two years away. | | :He has permitted our defenses to sink from a status of clear superiority to one of bare "sufficiency", and then still further to a level at which stark, irretrievable inferiority is less than two years away. |
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| | :He has allowed still bigger deficits in the years ahead, and still more vicious cycles of inflation and regimentation, by calling for the early enactment of a Family Assistance Plan that will easily double the already swollen cost of welfare to the taxpaying citizens of this country. | | :He has allowed still bigger deficits in the years ahead, and still more vicious cycles of inflation and regimentation, by calling for the early enactment of a Family Assistance Plan that will easily double the already swollen cost of welfare to the taxpaying citizens of this country. |
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| | + | Ashbrook received 9.6% of the vote in [[New Hampshire]], less than 9% in [[Floridas]], and then 10% in [[Nixon]]'s home state of [[California]], before pulling out. |
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| | + | == Papers == |
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| | + | Ashbrook's papers are maintained at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio, consisting of 309 feet of documents (mostly congressional papers) and personal documents spanning 1950 to 1982. |
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| | == References == | | == References == |
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| | + | == Sources == |
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| | + | * American National Biography, Volume I, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (Oxford University Press, 1999) |
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