Word: goldwaterism
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At the outset of his presidential campaign, Barry Goldwater figured that the best way to handle the farm issue would be to ignore it. After all, he had already set down his views in Conscience of a Conservative, where he advocated "prompt and final termination of the farm subsidy program...
One who realized the danger signals early was Nebraska's Republican Senator Carl Curtis, himself a farmer's son. Soon after the campaign began, Curtis implored Goldwater to spell out his farm views. Barry simply issued a rehashed version of the G.O.P. platform's farm plank. Getting...
Finally, sensing that he could no longer afford to let Conscience be his guide, Barry began backing away. On a whistle-stop trip through Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, Goldwater told audiences that while he was sticking by his guns on ending price supports, he knew that it had to be...
Such assurances were hardly enough to allay farmers' fears, so Goldwater summoned G.O.P. leaders from eleven farm states to a secret strategy meeting at Des Moines' Municipal Airport. He listened to their views for nearly an hour. A few days later, at the National Corn-Picking Contest at...
Farmers remained far from assured -and that fact is likely to cost Goldwater dearly on Election Day.