Word: goldwaterism
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In the past one hundred years, this representative state has only twice--in 1884 and 1916--voted with the loser in a Presidential election. And 1964 should be no different. Lyndon Johnson will probably carry Illinois, one of Barry Goldwater's "must" states, by at least a 60-40 margin...
Under this system small day-to-day inequities are taken for granted. The other day, for instance, Sen. Goldwater's statement that he would cut back our crash program to put a man on the moon got the drophead treatment in most papers, although President Johnson had merely spent another...
It is assumed that over the course of the campaign these little discrepancies will even up and the candidates will receive equal treatment. This year, because of a tactical decision of Sen. Goldwater's, this has not been true.
For content as well as color, Johnson's campaign has been superior to Goldwater's. Johnson seems to love holding press conferences, and a great many stories always come out of Presidential press conferences. (Stories would come out of Goldwater conferences, too, if he would hold more, as the response...
The President's reaction to stories from the overthrow of Khrushchev to the Walter Jenkins case is newsworthy; in situations where Goldwater's reaction would be of interest, the Jenkins case, for instance, the Senator has tended to stay aloof and let his subordinates do the shouting. The press devotes...