Word: goldwaterism
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So the real story of Goldwater's landslide burial is that he did not lead his campaign. It is a story that still has not been told well enough. Shaddeg and many others have made the generalization; no one has yet furnished the details and the insight that wold make...
Repeatedly, for example, Shaddeg declares that Goldwater the Presidential Candidate was a different man from Goldwater the Senator. But he never says very much about the difference. Caught between his friendship for Goldwater (to whom the book is dedicated "with affection and admiration") and the fact of the horrendous GOP...
What results is a partial-and unsatisfactory-sketch of the 1964 debacle. Goldwater did not lead his campaign because he never really felt a deep personal desire to become President. "He agreed to run," Shaddeg lamely states, 'because there was nothing else he could do."
-First, a lack of planning and coordination, all flowing from Goldwater's refusal to take command.
-Second, listless campaigning habits, and a failure to generate confidence and energy in his followers. According to Shaddeg's report, after one speech Goldwater "left the rossrum, paused only briefly to speak to one person at the edge of the crowd, then entered the elevator and went up to his...