In July 1964, the Republican party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater as the candidate to unseat President Lyndon Johnson. The ultra-conservative Arizona senator, whose radical right-wing rantings ...

This is no ordinary book; the chances are that long after Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater are dead, The Making of the President, 1964, and its older brother 1960, are still going to be read.

In myriad ways, 1964 was the year when Americans faced choices: between the liberalism of Lyndon Johnson or Barry Goldwater’s grassroots conservatism, between support or opposition to the civil ...

The shift to conservative control is signaled by Barry ... given Goldwater's record of comments such as, "Let's lob one into the men's room at the Kremlin." The Johnson campaign uses ...

When John Gardner became the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, he was joining President Lyndon ... Johnson's landslide re-election victory over Republican opponent Barry Goldwater ...