Maybe Goldwater would’ve put Gov. George Wallace at State.
It’s curious to note that Goldwater was the last Republican nominee so viscerally reviled and opposed by the establishment until Trump (Reagan reached out to them). Goldwater would’ve had to go outside the party establishment (and the party, period) to assemble a Cabinet and government. The GOP was lacking for leadership so badly at that time, mostly infested with left-wingers in Governorships and Congress. If he had tried to put them in key positions, they would’ve been constantly seeking to undermine him (Rockefeller, Scranton, et al).
I was just imagining Goldwater winning and bringing in a GOP House and Walter Cronkite having a conniption while announcing it.