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Opening his campaign for the March 10 New Hampshire primary, Barry Goldwater aimed not at Nelson Rockefeller or any other rival Republican, but squarely at President Johnson.
All but the Prickly Pear. Goldwater continued at a Portsmouth press conference the next day: "My experience with the President in the Senate does not cause me to be impressed by his frugal tendencies." He predicted that Johnson would be "the highest-spending President" in U.S. history, and quipped that...
What obviously annoyed Barry most was Johnson's statement that President Kennedy had been "a victim of hate"-the persistent Democratic implication being that the hatred was somehow inspired by conservatives. Cried Goldwater: "Immediately after the trigger was pulled, a hate attack against conservative Americans was started by the...
The Missile Flap. Neither was Goldwater appreciative of Democratic defense policy, particularly in its increasing dependence on intercontinental missiles instead of SAC bombers. "I don't feel safe at all about our missiles," he told a press-conference questioner. "I wish the Defense Department would tell the American people...
In the U.S., conservative forces have already begun to use America's belief in Oswald's guilt to show that they are correct in opposing "communists." The John Birch Society has declared. "We believe that the president of the United States has been murdered by a Communist within the United...