Barry Goldwater Quotes
... merely another weapon.
The Democrats used this quotation during the 1964 presidential campaign, in a famous TV ad with a little girl, a mushroom cloud and the announcer quoting Goldwater.
Barry Goldwater, 1909-1998, U. S. Senator (Republican, AZ), Republican Nominee for President, Describing nuclear bombs, October 24, 1963
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The ad, created by Tony Schwartz, only ran once, on September 7, 1964. It was so dramatic that News and other media replayed it and discussed it up until the election. LBJ’s opponent Barry Goldwater was a military hawk in the midst of the Cold war where nuclear war was everyone’s greatest fear. The Daisy ad was crystal clear and made overt what many Americans concern was about Goldwater. Johnson won in a landslide. See {586351} for the kinds of views that made Goldwater so vulnerable.
Coughlin was a great admirer of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and the Fascists. He was one of the American “heroes” in Nazi Germany, receiving assistance from the Nazi government. Between his anti-Semitism and support for Hitler, Fascism and radical socialism, the Vatican ordered him off the air and shut down his political demagoguery.
- Born: January 2, 1909
- Died: May 29, 1998
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Politician
Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician, statesman, businessman, United States Air Force officer, and author who was a five-term Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, many political pundits and historians believe he laid the foundation for the conservative revolution to follow, as the grassroots organization and conservative takeover of the Republican party began a long-term realignment in American politics helped to bring about the "Reagan Revolution" of the 1980s. He also had a substantial impact on the libertarian movement.
