Word: goldwaterism
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This, of course, was absurd. Whether rightly or wrongly, civil rights is, and is likely to remain the most emotionally explosive domestic issue of election year 1964. Both Goldwater and Johnson know this, and each quite understandably suspects the other of intending to use the issue for his own ends...
The Phrases. Lyndon would love to trademark the phrase "civil rights"-it has a fine, pious ring, and anyone who says he is against "civil rights" is obviously an extremist. Goldwater, of course, hopes to win in the Democratic South not because he is against "civil rights" but because he...
On the afternoon that Johnson and Goldwater were finally scheduled to meet, the President held a press conference and threw it open to TV. As the Washington Post's Folliard entered the auditorium, one of the President's Secret Service men pulled him aside and requested that he...
Folliard dutifully did so, and Johnson was waiting in his best pulpit manner. "Well," he said, "I do not believe that any issue which is before the people can be eliminated from the campaign in a free society in an election year ... I believe that all men and women are...
No Pix. When the actual Johnson-Goldwater meeting took place, it was icily formal. No photographs were taken, and when the session ended a scant 16 minutes after it started, White House Press Secretary George Reedy's communiqué was exquisitely balanced. "The President met with Senator Goldwater," it...