[Taft in '52]

Go, Goldwater, lets go, Goldwater,
Let's go for honest leadership!
Go, Goldwater, let's go, Goldwater!
Let's end that wheelerdealership!
He will keep our nation strong and out of war.
He will cut the waiste and graft, and then what's more,
He will throw the rascals out and slam the door!
In your heart, you know he's right,
So go, Goldwater, let's go, Goldwater, let's go, Goldwater, all the way!
Just make a note to cast your vote for Mr. USA!

[Graybeard58]

I remember it. I was 19 years old and not old enough to vote yet. He would have had my vote otherwise.

I remember standing in formation while old sarge handed out absentee ballot requests and being peeved because I wasn't old enough to get one. (Not many of us were)

[cyborg]

Wasn't he a big reason why the South went republican and stayed that way?

[John Filson]

Is there audio for this?

[Congressman Billybob]

I was there, in the Cow Palace in San Francisco, to see this speech, fresh out of college, with my first wife. Sadly, the only thing that turned out well was my college degree, and it had its defects.

I wrote the experience up in a column entitled, "Twenty Years of Chinese Mustard." Alas, that's too old for the Internet to have heard of it. LOL.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "The Fry Cook Rule for the Supreme Court"

[dodger]

The election in which America began to slip away ....

[tina07]

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

I was only 8 in '64, but anyway, I like the above paragraph from his speech. Moderation, i.e., like Kerry wanting to treat terrorism as a nuisance. (Unless I misunderstand the paragraph??)

[John Filson]

From http://www.facesofalzheimers.org/BGoldwater.html find a link to http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barrygoldwater1964rnc.htm which has an MP3 link under it.