Farrington, Joshua D. (2020). After completing Kennedy's term, he was elected President in his own right in the 1964 election. [91] After Kennedy's assassination, the Democratic party nominated Vice president Hubert Humphrey as their presidential candidate. The stakes are too high for you to stay home." Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. In late March, pollster George Gallup told a White House aide that “the President is doing a fantastic job in polls". A moderate Democrat and vigorous leader in the United States Senate, Johnson was elected vice president in 1960 and acceded to the presidency in 1963 . [28] Many senators including Edward M. Kennedy, Birch Bayh, Frank Church, Daniel Inouye, Abraham Ribicoff, and popular former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. campaigned on behalf of Johnson. It achieved many of the aims of a Reconstruction-era law, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which was passed but soon overturned. "[71], The most famous and effective advertisement was the Daisy ad, which was aired in early September. Wallace won 30 percent or more of the Democratic vote in the Wisconsin, Indiana, and Maryland primaries. In 1961, a group of twenty-two conservatives headed by Ohio Congressman John M. Ashbrook, lawyer and National Review publisher William A. Rusher and scholar F. Clifton White met privately in Chicago to discuss the formation of a grassroots organization to secure the nomination of a conservative as the 1964 Republican candidate. Ticket for the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. [38] He even insisted their mutual friend Jim Rowe to ask Humphrey personal questions like "How much money do you owe and to whom do you owe it?". [37], With the opening of the convention on August 24, Johnson needed to decide on a running mate. 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In the box with the president are Mayor John F. Collins, U.S. Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Republican Barry Goldwater in one of the largest landslides in U.S. history. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. [80], The election campaign was disrupted for a week by the death of former president Herbert Hoover on October 20, 1964. . A group of moderates tried to rally behind Scranton to stop Goldwater, but Goldwater's forces easily brushed his challenge aside, and Goldwater was nominated on the first ballot. This first-time electoral count was exceeded when Ronald Reagan won 489 votes in 1980. Shortly before the Republican convention, CBS reporter Daniel Schorr wrote from Germany that "It looks as though Senator Goldwater, if nominated, will be starting his campaign here in Bavaria, center of Germany's right wing." The campaign for the 1964 election took place in the middle of the escalating Vietnam War. The correct answer is C) Won the 1964 election by a wide margin. Opponent William E. Miller (52) Electoral College Votes by State State Electoral Vote of each State For President For Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, of Texas Barry M. Goldwater, of At his party's convention, he introduced his running mate, Hubert H. Humphrey, a liberal senator from Minnesota who gave the ticket . Initially, Rockefeller was considered the front-runner, ahead of Goldwater. President Johnson promised "a government that provides equal opportunity for all". Davies, Gareth, and Julian E. Zelizer, eds. At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Johnson also won the nomination of his preferred running mate, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota. Found inside" In a powerful narrative layered with revealing detail, Todd S. Purdum tells the story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, recreating the legislative maneuvering and the larger-than-life characters who made its passage possible. National Archives and Records Administration. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. However, in 1963, two years after Rockefeller's divorce from his first wife, he married Margaretta "Happy" Murphy, who was nearly 18 years younger than he and had just divorced her husband and surrendered her four children to his custody. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Goldwater selected Rep. William E. Miller of New York as his running mate. While on the first stop of his 1964 reelection campaign, President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Goldwater did poorly in traditionally Republican areas, but, largely on the basis of Goldwater’s opposition to the civil rights bill and his promotion of states’ rights, he carried Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, in addition to his home state of Arizona. The election was held on November 3, 1964. Many historians consider this speech—"A Time for Choosing"—to mark the beginning of Reagan's transformation from an actor to a political leader. Barry Goldwater. Johnson defeated Goldwater in the general election in a landslide, winning over 61% of the popular vote, the highest percentage since the popular vote first became widespread in 1824. Incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee. The 1964 Democratic National Convention convened at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey from August 24 to 27. When questioned about the presidential capabilities of the former president's younger brother, university administrator Milton S. Eisenhower, in July 1964, Goldwater replied, "One Eisenhower in a generation is enough." He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1937 upon winning a special election for Texas's 10th congressional district. PASSAGE. Goldwater had a habit of making blunt statements about war, nuclear weapons, and economics that could be turned against him. In Context. Incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee. He became the president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Sam Gnerre Johnson had . In the summer of 1965, President Johnson faced an agonizing decision. [3][4] As such, little politicking was done by the candidates of either major party until January 1964, when the primary season officially began. Button from Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 U.S. presidential campaign. [33] He campaigned for reduced government expenditures, elimination of government bureaucracies, an end to “forced” integration, reassertion of states’ rights, and a total end of communism. Lodge was a write-in candidate. In accepting his nomination, Goldwater uttered his most famous phrase (a quote from Cicero suggested by speechwriter Harry Jaffa): "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Found insideAssesses the impact of governmental and presidential lies on American culture, revealing how such lies become ever more complex and how such deception creates problems far more serious than those lied about in the beginning. As she counts up, a countdown begins that leads to a nuclear mushroom cloud, an allusion to Goldwater’s past statements that nuclear bombs might be used tactically in Vietnam. [10] Senator Prescott Bush of Connecticut, the father of President George H. W. Bush and grandfather of President George W. Bush, was among Rockefeller's critics on this issue: "Have we come to the point in our life as a nation where the governor of a great state—one who perhaps aspires to the nomination for president of the United States—can desert a good wife, mother of his grown children, divorce her, then persuade a young mother of four youngsters to abandon her husband and their four children and marry the governor? He noted that a prior Goldwater interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel was an "appeal to right-wing elements". In almost every case, however, the attacks . [78] Though Johnson's polling numbers dropped in early July, he still had a decisive 2-1 margin over Goldwater. Goldwater attacked Johnson for his policies, saying "the interim president has declared a moratorium on government. Retrieved August 7, 2005. Lyndon B. Johnson's first year as president was one for the history books: it began with President Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, and ended almost exactly a year later with Johnson's reelection to the White House, in a major victory over Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. On this day in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated his challenger, GOP Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, by one of the most lopsided margins in U.S. presidential election history. Kennedy and Johnson's relationship was troubled from the time Robert Kennedy was a Senate staffer. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1964 Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1964 Republican Party presidential primaries, Barry Goldwater 1964 presidential campaign, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, National Archives and Records Administration, John F. Kennedy 1960 presidential campaign, "The winning slogan from every US presidential campaign since 1948", "Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1964", "Lyndon B. Johnson Biography, Presidency, Civil Rights, Vietnam War, & Facts", "Kennedy Nominated on the First Ballot; Overwhelms Johnson by 806 Votes to 409", "Johnson is Nominated for Vice President; Kennedy Picks Him to Placate the South", "John F. Kennedy defeats Richard M. Nixon, Nov. 8, 1960", "Hush of tragedy surrounds Johnson as he assumes burden of Presidency", "Seeing Is Believing - The Enduring Legacy of Lyndon Johnson", "H.R. With 61.1% of the popular vote, Johnson won the largest share of the popular vote of any candidate since the largely uncontested 1820 election. Found insideNo one knows the real inside story better, and A Glorious Disaster tells that story in all its rollicking, agonizing, and never-before-published detail. They defeated Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater and vice presidential nominee William Miller. Nixon, a moderate with ties to both wings of the GOP, had been able to unite the factions in 1960; in his absence the way was clear for the two factions to engage in a hard-fought campaign for the nomination. This was the last time that the Democratic Party won the white vote, although they came close in 1992. [16] Except in the South, where Johnson had a 13 percent disapproval rating, he was leading throughout the country. Nonetheless, Johnson still managed to eke out a bare popular majority of 51–49% (6.307 to 5.993 million) in the eleven former Confederate states. [31], Johnson led in all opinion polls by huge margins throughout the entire campaign.[32]. Maine and Vermont had been the only states that FDR had failed to carry during any of his four successful presidential bids. "[10], In the first primary, in New Hampshire, both Rockefeller and Goldwater were considered to be the favorites, but the voters instead gave a surprising victory to the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Nixon's running mate in 1960 and a former Massachusetts senator. [14] Goldwater had previously voted in favor of the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights acts, but only after proposing "restrictive amendments" to them. Johnson retains the highest percentage of the popular vote as of the 2020 presidential election. Since the 1964 election, Democratic presidential candidates have almost consistently won at least 80–90% of the black vote in each presidential election. Barry Goldwater - Mr. Conservative is the biography of Barry Goldwater, a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-87) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election. 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