I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.
I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.
I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.
I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.
As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.
My dad was a Republican. My mom - my mom was mostly a Republican, although she voted for McGovern over Nixon. She was really proud of that. She also did, however, work for Trent Lott.
I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.
I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
I have been a Republican since 1966.