The Nation - News from Nov. 3, 1985

Former Interior Secretary James G. Watt said the Republican Party “ought to die” if it does not develop into a nationwide conservative movement. In an interview with U.S. News & World Report, Watt, who served in the first two years of the Reagan Administration, complained that liberals dominate big business and labor, the media, education, entertainment, churches and government. “We conservatives are the outsiders, and it’s therefore our responsibility to confront, convince and convert American thought if we are to bring needed changes,” he said.