Victor Gold Quotes


Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.


Citations

Gold, Victor. PR as in President. Doubleday, 1977.

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The Communist party officials in Peking would screen all the candidates and eliminate populist of corporation hostile politicians who might turn the Hong Kong election into a class warfare type of conflict where the vast majority of poor or lower middle class Hong Kong citizens would pressure all candidates to commit to more equality be passing taxes and other laws that might put restrictions on corporations which would inhibit the open capitalistic system in Hong Kong, where a person can have an idea in the morning, form a corporation by Noon and set up offices and start to do business before the end of the day having fulfilled all required legal obligations. One irony here is the richest capitalists would be expected to oppose a numerical control of the City, but they are joined by Mr. Leung and the Chinese Communist Party in wanting to be sure that the rich businessmen had a great deal of influence and power. Chinese Communism makes for some very strange bedfellows. See {642335}.


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  • Born: September 25, 1928
  • Died: June 5, 2017
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Journalist, Press Secretary To Late Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Victor "Vic" Gold was an American journalist, author, and Republican political consultant. Gold began his career as a lawyer and advisor to the Democratic Party in Alabama before switching to the Republican Party. He worked as deputy press secretary for Senator Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential election and press secretary for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew from 1970 to 1973. Gold left politics for a time to work as a writer and political commentator, returning in 1979 as a speechwriter to the presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush and was an advisor to Bush's 1988 and 1992 campaigns. Later in life, Gold split with the Republicans over issues including the 2003 invasion of Iraq and formally left the party in 2016.