http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/26/magazine/2010lives.html?src=tptw#view=donald_lukensWAITING TO BOARD a flight from Columbus, Ohio, to Washington in January 1991, the former Representative Donald Lukens hid in a toilet stall in the men’s room to escape reporters and photographers. It was a testament to his fighting spirit that Lukens believed he still had dignity to protect.
Buz Lukens first arrived in Washington three decades earlier. A handsome and energetic former Air Force officer, Lukens became chairman of the capital’s Young Republicans. With much of Washington and the world in thrall to liberal Camelot, Lukens plotted its overthrow.
His first triumph came in 1963 at the Young Republican National Federation convention in San Francisco. It was a mad medley of dirty tricks, as the G.O.P. establishment, which supported Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York in the 1964 presidential campaign, fended off right-wing insurgents like Lukens, who backed Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Years later, Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a delegate at the convention, recalled it as the “goddamnedist hardball politics” he had ever witnessed. On the second roll call, Lukens was elected national chairman, though the convention secretary was unable to announce the tally; she’d been shoved off the stage.
With his virulent opposition to taxes, civil rights and liberalism, Lukens was the vanguard of movement conservatism. Three decades before Fox News, he encouraged conservatives to take news media jobs in order to promote what he called “honest and accurate reporting of the Republican cause.”
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