Goldwater was trounced by Lyndon Johnson in 1964. They chose as their hero Barry Goldwatera rich, handsome Arizona Republican who scorned the federal bureaucracy, reviled detente, despised liberals on sightand grew determined to see him elected President. Buckley, Jr., John Birch Society leader Robert Welch, and thousand of studentsformed a movement to challenge the center-left consensus. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, conservativeseditor William F. Before the Storm begins in a time much like the presentthe tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past.īut when John F.
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