Barry M. Quotes
The lead paragraph of the story by staff writer Leon Anderson reported that “Senator Goldwater said here today he favors turning Social Security into a voluntary program.” Ever since the New Deal initiated Social Security, with major Republican opposition, Republicans had been split on whether to support it or try and end it by privatizing the program that is the most liked program of the American population. George W. Bush, tried to make the privatization of Social Security the centerpiece of his legislative program, but the people rose up in protest and it was defeated easily.
The Navy developed a program to disperse the home bases of the U. S. based fleet. They called it "home porting" which became "home porking" to detractors who accused the navy of spreading out the money in order to curry favor with congress rather than making cost effective military decisions. One opponent of the program was Barry Goldwater, the senior senator from Arizona—a landlocked state:
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.
He was referring to the possibility that Barry Goldwater might win the presidency in 1964. Goldwater's father was Jewish, but the family was Episcopalian.
During the Bay of Pigs crisis the President was consulting congressional leaders including Senator Barry Goldwater, who had ambitions for the Presidency:
Liberal economist Galbraith had just finished testifying before Congress. Conservative Senator Barry Goldwater approached him and stated that he agreed with Galbraith entirely on that issue.
Goldwater was not a racist personally, however he opposed the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 against the leadership and majority of the Republican Party, and he initiated a “Southern Strategy” whereby he invited the racists of the South who were furious that Democrat Lyndon Johnson had abandoned them and ended legal segregation forever, to leave the Democratic Party. They did, and while they and the hard core of ultraconservative Goldwater republicans were not enough to overcome the public disapproval of the callous strategy and Goldwater’s nuclear positions. However, the coalition that Goldwater had assembled formed the base of a new Republican Party which gave Ronald Reagan strong majorities, and in the early 21st century the Goldwater coalition of Southerners, Goldwater conservatives gained control of the Republican Party and purged most of the moderates and polarized American politics ending even the traditional bipartisanship in Foreign Affairs.
