Word: goldwaterism
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With the fervor of an evangelist smoking out pockets of heathens, Lyndon Johnson in the last week of his campaign for election, went into those states where he thought the race with Barry Goldwater might be close. He roared through Florida, Georgia and South Carolina in the Deep South, through...
Tinsel Dreams. Considering himself assured of victory, Johnson often seemed carried away by the wonderfulness of it all. In San Bernardino, Calif., he made a sentimental journey to the Platt Building, where he operated an elevator as a boy 39 years ago, but his remarks about Goldwater were decidedly unsentimental...
It may be said that even with his huge majorities, Johnson cannot afford mistakes. Franklin Roosevelt had still larger majorities after the New Deal's high-water year of 1936. Once Roosevelt attempted to pass his court-packing bill, his majorities fell apart. The Johnson coalition, glued together not by...
Although Barry Goldwater has been obliterated by the greatest margin of the century, one cannot help wonder, Who were those 25 million people that voted for him? Some may be explained away as life-long party supporters who mark their ballots "Republican" regardless of election, candidate, or issue. But obviously...
A second reason for at least guarded optimism about the Southern vote is that Republican congressmen were elected in the most powerful enclaves of segregation, Mississippi and Alabama. Local Democrats will now be forced to offer alternatives to these Goldwater men, and if such candidates need Negro votes, they will...