Trump / Goldwater?

[EDDIE51]

Anyone old enough to remember the 1964 US Presidential election where Barry Goldwater was up against Lyndon Johnston ?
Goldwater was supposed to have a 'secret following' of voters who would come out in droves on polling day to sweep him to the Whitehouse.
In the end as we all know, Johnston won by a landslide .

[EDDIE51]

Tried Googling 'Barry Goldwater' but a lot of stuff seems to have been removed under the 'privacy' rules !

[Jackdaw33]

Yes, I do. The problem was that in the wake of JFK Johnson was a shoo-in.

[EDDIE51]

Yes, L B Johnston was woken up by his aide with the famous phrase
'' The President is dead Mr President !''
But he won the presidential election a year later by the largest ever majority.

[Jackdaw33]

The perceived wisdom at the the time was if JFK had lived he may well have lost against Goldwater

[EDDIE51]

Yes, certain of JFK's policies were very unpopular with the Republicans much as 'Obama Care' is today.

[Peter Pedant]

I amazed you havent had a chorus of "Barry hoo-water ?"
and " Goldfinger is he real and wot he do den ?"
perhaps they have all gone to bed ...

yes I do ( of course ) but not really his politics
but never mind - wiki comes to the rescue 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater_presidential_campaign,_1964

[Peter Pedant]

Jackie would not take off her blood drenched dress as she wanted the American people to see what they had done to her husband

as Donald Trump would say fifty years later
some folks had kinda exercised their rights to the second amendment .....

[EDDIE51]

When I think of Lyndon B Johnson I always remember the Tommy Lehrer song 'Whatever became of Hubert' in reference to Hubert Humphrey who was LBJ's VP
http://www.metrolyrics.com/whatever-became-of-hubert-lyrics-tom-lehrer.html
Read the last verse!

[vetuste_ennemi]

"Is it a plane, is it a bird?" - I remember that bit of his presidential campaign.

Hubert I mean.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Peter, you must be able to do one of your Pedant power posts on the theme "First blast of the Trump against the monstrous regiment of women", mustn't you?