Goldwater was 100% correct in voting against the version of the civil rights act that passed.
Just ask any bakery owner who refuses to make a cake for a gay wedding.
Will watch later.
***That’s because Goldwater had no chance of winning anyhow.
Americans weren’t going to dishonor their recently assassinated Democratic president by failing to vote for his successor. Period. ****
Bunkum. Goldwater lost because he said we might have to send troops to SE Asia.
Johnson replied...(It’s been 50 years, but I think this is it)...”I will not send American boys to Vietnam to fight a war that Vietnamese boys should be fighting!”
From an old article I read back around 1970, Goldwater approached Johnson and said...”You know we will have to send troops to Vietnam.”
Johnson’s reply was...”I know, but I’m trying to win an election!”
I also remember the political add of the little girl eating the ice cream cone while a voice over tells about all the bad things nuclear fallout will bring if Goldwater was elected.
I’ll watch it later. Thanks
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http://books.google.com/books?id=swXwayxxY_gC&q=goldwater+billboard+ad%2Bnow+you+know+he+was+right&dq=goldwater+billboard+ad%2Bnow+you+know+he+was+right&hl=en&sa=X&ei=s9DrUoqbHYSGyAHTq4HACg&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBw
Lee Edwards - 1997 - Snippet view - More editions
By 1967, from one end orAmenca to another, conservatives were grimly joking: "I was told that if I voted for Goldwater, we were going to war in Vietnam. Well, I did ... It was put succinctly in a giant billboard along the Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago. ... Just before the 1966 elections, it read: "Now You Know He Was Right.
The Twist Dance seems to have started the downfall of America, Chuck Berry likely never knew what that song and dance would bring. However, it is illustrated very well in this movie.
LBJ....the man who made the phrase “My Fellow Americans” a insult.
Other than watching the conventions and being fascinated, going door-to-door for Goldwater as part of YAF in my teens was my first political action.