Word: goldwaterism
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Eleven months after the murder of John F. Kennedy, as the campaign languishes in boredom, purposelessness, and platitude, it has become too easy to take Lyndon Johnson for granted and to see him only as the other candidate in a "squash Goldwater" election. It has become too easy to forget...
Students at the College, at Radcliffe and in most of the graduate schools will be asked to mark whether they favor President Johnson or Sen. Barry M. Goldwater on special ballots. The ballot boxes will be watched.
Most egregious of all, however, is your statement, either incredibly naive of incredibly uniformed, that "Keating's defeat would be almost meaningless in terms of national politics." This opinion is indeed absurd. Keating's defeat would immediately and most joyously be recognised by the pro-Goldwater forces as the defeat...
Officials have repeatedly stresed that the council's purpose is not to defeat Sen. Barry Goldwater but to solve the long-range problem of political extremism. Pusey last night said in effect that was his purpose, too.
The freedom vote will be held Oct. 31, Nov. 1, and Nov. 2. On those days the Negroes of Mississippi, largely excluded from the registration rolls in that state, will be able to cast ballots for Johnson or Goldwater at polls set up by the MFDP.