I won’t paint you one way or the other, but what did you think of JFK at the time? Just curious.
I was a Goldwater supporter but I didn’t “hate” JFK, I reserved that emotion for LBJ. Goldwater was amazing in the way he communicated his positions to everybody. Later, I remember him running again for the Senate and walking through the mine yard at shift change. Everyone thought he was great although they wouldn’t vote for him because they followed the dictates of the Union. The workforce was about 80% Mexican American in the underground and they loved the way he didn’t talk down to them like so many other politicians.