Goldwater thought he'd have run a better race against JFK, and the MSM wouldn't have the mythology of Democratic sainthood they've used for 40 years had the assassination not occured.
Here's another little jewel from that era that continues to be a curse to our country and which we have LBJ to thank for:
The CAMELOT fraud wasn't pushed until a few years AFTER the assassination and was thought up by Jackie, pushed upon E.B. White, who then orchestrated the drooling sycophantic MSM to carry it forth. And this was at a time, when Jackie and Bobby were having a torrid affair. Which I have an eyewitness for, to substantiate that fact.
And what the revisionist history has left out for 40+ years, is that JFK's presidency was just one mess after another. Even the UNIONS couldn't stand him and made him cave in to the myriad of strikes they pulled, all through his presidency.
Besides one tax cut, there wasn't a damned thing right he and his team did. "THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST" turned out to be nothing but bumbling idiots, traitors, frauds, whore mongers, drug addicts, and morons.