Posted on Jun 29, 2024
How Barry Goldwater Brought the Far Right to Center Stage in the 1964 Presidential Race | HISTORY...
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A little history lesson for some of us. I was definitely not into politics in 1964, I was college freshman football player more interested in maintaining my scholarship than anything else on election day. But I lived through the campaign, remember how people saw Goldwater as a shoe in, and can't help but draw parallels to 2024.
How Barry Goldwater Brought the Far Right to Center Stage in the 1964 Presidential Race | HISTORY...
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Goldwater was willing to use nuclear weapons freely. claiming military leader could use as they felt necessary, especially in Vietnam. That would have been a disaster for the world.
BTW, this was my first vote in a Presidential election. I have voted in every general election since, almost all by absentee ballot.
BTW, this was my first vote in a Presidential election. I have voted in every general election since, almost all by absentee ballot.
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And the Democrat that won in 1964 escalated the Vietnam war that cost 58,000 war dead. We will never know if Goldwater would have been worse but for 58,000 Johnson certainly was bad for them.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
By all accounts he was a military hawk so it's doubtful things would have been different. Good thought though.
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MAJ Byron Oyler
Pretty much the entire 20th Century we had Democrats and Republican hawks and oddly enough, no one in the world wanted to fight with the hawks. Every major conflict in the 20th century had a democrat at the helm.
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