A Republican odyssey, from Goldwater in the Cow Palace to Trump in Milwaukee
In the midst of the seven years he spent as an undergraduate at California State University at Northridge, Steel devoted himself to organizing Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapters in Southern California and “dealing with the Commies on campus.” He attended his second Republican convention in Miami in 1968, “raising hell” against Rockefeller one last time, pushing a modest presidential boomlet for Reagan, but having no interest in the nominee, Richard M. Nixon. He thought the fellow Californian he dismissed as “Tricky Dicky” was too much of a big government proponent and had “no moral center.”
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