If It’s Goldwater v. Johnson, Who Will Win?

To a United Press International reporter, Barry Goldwater said in the summer of 1963: “I don’t want this nomination, but it may be forced on me. If I’m put in a position where I have to take it, I won’t be a reluctant tiger. I’ll get out and fight.” He paused briefly, then added: “With the right candidate, 1964 could be a Republican year after all.”

Those words were spoken when John F. Kennedy was President of the United States. A Marxist assassin’s bullet and the stark horror of death on a Dallas street put an end to one set of political conditions and established a new one. The opposition Kennedy had engendered and the controversy he had unleashed seemingly went to a grave in Arlington with him.

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To a United Press International reporter, Barry Goldwater said in the summer of 1963: “I don’t want this nomination, but it may be forced on me. If I’m put in a position where I have to take it, I won’t be a reluctant tiger. I’ll get out and fight.” He paused briefly, then added: “With the right candidate, 1964 could be a Republican year after all.”

Those words were spoken when John F. Kennedy was President of the United States. A Marxist assassin’s bullet and the stark horror of death on a Dallas street put an end to one set of political conditions and established a new one. The opposition Kennedy had engendered and the controversy he had unleashed seemingly went to a grave in Arlington with him.