1964 Presidential Election PIN, featuring Barry Goldwater
" GOLDWATER 1964 " Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a
five-term United States Senator from Goldwater is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence
of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. Goldwater rejected the legacy of the New Deal and fought inside the Conservative
coalition to defeat the New Deal coalition. He lost the 1964 presidential
election by a large margin to incumbent Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson. The Johnson
campaign and other critics painted him as a reactionary, while supporters
praised his crusades against the federal government, labor unions, and the welfare
state. His defeat allowed Lyndon Johnson and the Democrats in Congress to pass
the Great Society programs, but the defeat of so many older Republicans in 1964
also cleared the way for a younger generation of American conservatives to
mobilize. Goldwater was much less active as a national leader of conservatives
after 1964; his supporters mostly rallied behind Ronald Reagan, who became Governor
of California in 1967 and President of the By the 1980s, the increasing influence of the Christian Right on the Republican
Party so conflicted with Goldwater's libertarian views that he became a vocal
opponent of the religious right on issues such as abortion and gay rights.
Goldwater concentrated on his Senate duties, especially passage of the Goldwater-Nichols
Act of 1986.
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