The Strength of President Johnson

I have word from a shrewd son of a former congressman from Oklahoma that if Mr. Kennedy had lived, and fought in November against Mr. Goldwater, he’d have lost to him there by 2-1. But if the election were held tomorrow, he writes, and it were Johnson against Goldwater, Goldwater would lose, “by almost 2-1.” Statistics from elsewhere are not by any means so drastically reversed. But there is no longer any observer, anywhere, who thinks that Johnson will be a weaker candidate than Kennedy.

Buckley