Kennedy ran against Nixon. I don’t remember that one.
I do; it was, and still remains, the gold standard for electoral cheating...
Johnson ran against Goldwater. That was vicious, for sure.
Goldwater was hated by the press even worse than Trump is today, if that’s possible...
Barry Goldwater may well be the most conservative/constitutionalist person to run for President (so far) in my lifetime. It's hard to compare ... 52 years from '64 to '16 is a long time and these United States have changed so much.