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.
Get the L.A. Times Politics newsletter
Deeply reported insights into legislation, politics and policy from Sacramento, Washington and beyond. In your inbox three times per week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
