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Barry Goldwater is the most recent non-college graduate to be the nominee of a major political party in a presidential election. Goldwater entered the family's business around the time of his father's death in 1930.
Goldwater carried six states: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina and his home state of Arizona. [180] Goldwater's strong showing in the south is largely due to his support of the white southern view on civil rights: that states should be able to control their own laws without federal intervention. [181]
He expresses alarm at Goldwater's contradictory, confrontational political views and support from the Ku Klux Klan (the result of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964) and says that he is afraid of Goldwater's instability and aggressive approach, and fears that it might lead to a nuclear war with the U.S.S.R.
The Republican National Convention of 1964 was a tension-filled contest. Goldwater's conservatives were openly clashing with Rockefeller's moderates. Goldwater was regarded as the "conservatives' leading spokesman." [3] As a result, Goldwater was not as popular with the moderates and liberals of the Republican Party.
Following "A Time For Choosing" in 1964, Washington Post reporter David S. Broder called the speech "the most successful national political debut since William Jennings Bryan electrified the 1896 Democratic Convention with his 'Cross of Gold' speech." [7] Nevertheless, Barry Goldwater lost the election by one of the largest margins in history.
Among the views they shared from respondents was that Goldwater was a “latent homosexual,” that he “hated and feared his wife,” and that he was conflicted because his father was Jewish and ...
A Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater’s Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement. Basic Books. Rae, Nicol C. (1994). Southern Democrats. Oxford University Press. Rice, Ross R. "The 1964 Elections in the West." Western Political Quarterly 18.2-2 (1965): 431–438, with full articles on each Western state.
It was formulated by an APA committee after 1968 Republican presidential nominee and Arizona senator Barry Goldwater filed a lawsuit against Look magazine for publishing a story in which ...