Barry Goldwater

string of young conservatives popping up everywhere. These conservatives were anti-communism and against big government, they believed in the free market. Lyndon Johnson was elected President in 1964, by a landslide. He was practically unopposed. Barry Goldwater was his competitor, and while Johnson had the JFK assassination on his side, it was Goldwater’s crazy ideas about the Cold War that really made him so undesirable among the people. Extremism just wasn’t okay with the people. An important piece

incisive comment about how the Democrats before him raised taxes was elicited by the President, to President Lyndon Johnson's ad against Barry Goldwater that displayed a map of the United States where the eastern seaboard was being cut-off by a saw. This imagery, both audio and visual, was accompanied by a narrator's quoting of Goldwater saying he wished the eastern seaboard could be sawed off and let drift into the ocean. The height of this type of advertising was seen

Both Donald Trump or Ted Cruz would fail the Alamogordo test. This might spell disastrous defeat in any normal election. What 's the Alamogordo scan? I hadn’t realized it myself until I watched — with my developed Placement history pupils — a dramatization of the first atomic scan at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. It then struck me — with a blinding flash of perception — that this is what the American voters had been announcing to us considering that that date: we wish a President we

Reagan: A True American Hero”      “We will continue our quest in space. There will be more flights and more space shuttle crews. And, yes, more volunteers.”                               -Ronald Reagan      Ronald Reagan, viewed by some as a true American hero, was as stupendous as presidents can

Reagan: A True American Hero" "We will continue our quest in space. There will be more flights and more space shuttle crews. And, yes, more volunteers." -Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan, viewed by some as a true American hero, was as stupendous as presidents can be. His dramatic speeches and down-to-earth personality made people proud to be American. Ronald Reagan seemed more then American. He was a patriot. Ronald Reagan cared deeply for the American people as well at their values

Introduction On Feb. 6, 1911 a child named Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in a small town, Tampico, Illinois. His parents are the late Nelle Wilson and John ("Jack") Reagan. Ronald grew up with one brother by the name of Neil ("Moon") Reagan. The Reagans moved quite a few times throughout Ronald’s childhood before settling down in Dixon Illinois. Although Reagan Majored in Sociology and Economics, his love was in entertainment. In 1936 he accepted a position with the radio station WHO in Des

Conservatism is a widespread belief in today’s society, but things were not always this way. Barry Goldwater was a conservative man who lost the presidential election and in his presidential run, his opponent, Lyndon B. Johnson, won more of the popular vote than any man before. But Goldwater’s run sparked a great movement through America; the rise of conservatism. Goldwater was considered an extremist conservative, even dubbed Mr. Conservative, as he believed the true western ideals of individualism

“Mr. Conservative”, Barry Goldwater ushered in the modern conservative movement in the United States in the mid 1950’s running on a platform of individual freedom, a government based upon the constitution and individual responsibility. He has been called “the most consequential loser” of an American Presidential race to LBJ in 1964 started as it signaled a change to conservative politics that would eventually end half a century of liberal control in the US political landscape. Goldwater’s policies

Barry Goldwater was an American politician who was also a senator from Arizona as well at the Republican candidate for president in 1964. For 30 years he was a senate in Arizona and quickly became known as “Mr. Conservative.” During this time, he wrote his book, The Conscience of a Conservative, published in 1960, which ended up being a huge hit and sold millions across the country. The Conscience of a Conservative discusses state rights, civil rights, taxes etc. Reading this book and hearing what

A week after Wisconsin in Illinois, Goldwater squared off against Margaret Chase Smith. Rockefeller dared not challenge Goldwater in the conservative state, neither did anyone else of much consequence for that matter with Lodge and Nixon still undeclared. Goldwater needed to prove to Republicans that he could win, and Illinois, with 26 electoral votes, was a coveted prize. Feminist groups put Smith’s name on the ballot, hoping that she could elicit the kind of challenge that made her famous when