that was considered anti-semitic. In November 2014, Gold participated in a Heritage Foundation panel discussion on the legacy of Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. Moderator Lee Edwards introduced him as follows: "Vic Gold is the wizard of wordsmiths, the prince of press secretaries, the man with the shortest temper in Washington routinely called Old Faithful because he blows up at least every 91 minutes, trusted adviser to vice presidents and presidents, a graduate of the University of Alabama Law School who loves to quote Bear Bryant and hoist high the Crimson Tide, indefatigable deputy press secretary for Barry Goldwater in 1964." Journalism and book-writing career Gold was a long-time contributor to Washingtonian magazine, for which he held the position of national correspondent. He also wrote articles on politics and sports for numerous other U.S. publications, was a speaker for political audiences and on university campuses, and appeared on television shows. A personal friend of the Bush family, he co-wrote George H.W. Bush's 1987 autobiography, Looking Forward, published the year before Bush's successful campaign for the U.S. presidency. Together with Lynne Cheney, who was a colleague at Washingtonian magazine before she became chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities), Gold co-authored a satirical political novel entitled The Body Politic, published in 1988. The novel revolves around a Republican vice president who dies while making love to a female television news reporter. He also was the author of several nonfiction books. I Don't Need You When I'm Right recounted his experience in Washington public relations. P-R As In President dealt with the influence of the news media and public relations in U.S. presidential political campaigns. In his 2007 book Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Neo-Cons and Holy Rollers Destroyed the GOP, he criticized President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. In the book he called the younger Bush "the weakest, most out of touch president in modern times." Gold wrote of Cheney, whom he called "Machiavellian" and said that "a vice president in control is bad enough. Worse yet is a vice president out of control." Under their leadership, he said that the Republican Party had abandoned its long-time principles of small government, prudent foreign policy, and keeping government out of people's private lives. He decried the influence of religious right leaders such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, and said that the Republican Party had been