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505 Letter exchange between Nixon and BMG in DK, Box 3/Nixon. Nixon's plans for Hershey Hotel are in Richard Nixon, RN:
The Memoirs of Richard Nixon,
vol. 1 (New York: Warner Books, 1978), 320-22; and Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition,
186, 189. Transcript of Hershey is in Karl Hess,
In a Cause That Will Triumph: The Goldwater Campaign and the Future of Conservatism
(New York: Doubleday, 1967), 165-231.

506 For tour difficulties, see Schlesinger,
History of American Presidential Elections,
3020; Nixon, RN, 324; and Shadegg,
What Happened,
271. For distorted media coverage: Debra Livermore Turner to author, March 31, 1997.

506 For “Texas Doctors for Goldwater,” see Ronnie Dugger,
The Politician: The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson
(New York: Norton, 1982), 452. The Air Reserve Squadron rumor is noted in MCSL, Statements and Speeches, vol. 29, 148. For King leaflets, see Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
521; and Jamieson,
Packaging the Presidency,
218. For Miller's daughter's bomb scare, see
Harrisburg Patriot,
October 29, 1964. For broken wrist and “teenagers are the hard core” quote, see John M. Cummings, “Rough Tactics by the Voters,”
Philadelphia Inquirer,
October 22, 1964.

507 For UNICEF and JBS, see Gerald Schomp,
Birchism Was My Business
(New York: Macmillan, 1970), 98. Goldwater taffy order blank in FCW, Box 3/Ohio. Vandalized BMG signs: author interview with Margot Henriksen.

507 LBJ reading Republicans' FBI reports is in Jeff Shesol,
Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade
(New York: Norton, 1997), 228. For statement linking BMG to Jenkins, see Shesol,
Mutual Contempt,
227. For pinball schedule, see Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition,
249. Podium requirements from author interview with Mel Cottone.
“I'm depending on you young folks”:
Shepherd and Wren,
Quotations from Chairman LBJ,
13. For San Diego, see Rowland Evans and Robert Novak,
Lyndon B. Johnson: Exercise of Power: A Political Biography
(New York: New American Library, 1966), 481; and Cormier,
LBJ the Way He Was,
128.

508
“He tells the American people”:
AHF, Box 1/8.
“So many unfortunate remarks”: New York Daily News, October
30, 1964. For BMG Phoenix interview on Vietnam, see UPI dispatches in LBJWHNG.
“Does this make any sense”
: Baltimore speech, AHF, Box 1/9.

508
“I can't help but wondering”:
undated speech in AHF, Box 1/13.

509 For Columbia, South Carolina, speech, see Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition,
216.

509 For Reagan surplus, see Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition,
147; and Shadegg,
What Happened,
24. For inability to buy time: White,
Making of the President 1964
, 397; and author interview with Charles Lichenstein.

509 Local showings of Reagan speech: William Martin,
With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America
(New York: Broadway Books, 1996), 87; F. Clifton White,
Why Reagan Won: The Conservative Movement, 1964-1981
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1981), 24; and author interview with Noel Black (for second mortgage story).
A kid in Kentucky:
The kid was Gary Bauer, who told the story frequently while running for President in 2000.
People called their crazy:
author interview with Allan Ryskind.
“In my 30 years in politics”
: Kellar to Kitchel, January 4, 1965, DK, Box 2.
“Incidentally
,
” he added:
Lee to Kitchel, November 20, 1964, DK, Box 4. For Goldwater's jealousy, see Edwards,
Goldwater,
334.

510 Wirt Yerger, blunt as ever:
author interview with Wirt Yerger. For conflict with Columbia, South Carolina, address, see AHFCP, vol. 10, pictures 28-29.

510 For San Francisco: AHFCP, vol. 10, picture 31. For rain commercial, see
Jamieson, Packaging the Presidency,
220; and Diamond and Bates,
The Spot,
140.

511 For bombing decision, see H. R. McMaster,
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
(New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 155-78.

511 For Goldwater family at polls, see Jimmy Breslin, “Goldwater Legacy Lives On,”
Newsday,
February 20, 2000; AHFCP, vol. 10, picture 41; and Edwards,
Goldwater,
339.

511 LBJ palm cards in AC. For poll watching, see “Chairman Bailey Warns Against Republican Plans to Intimidate Voters,” October 27, 1964, DNC press release, LBJWHAM, Box 22/“Operation Eagle Eye”; Cuyahoga County memo, FCW, Box 3/Ohio; and “A Word About Operation Eagle Eye,” instructions to Chicago volunteers, FCW, Box 19/Illinois. For Humphrey quote, Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition,
172. For 1962 Arizona elections, see “Memorandum to Guy Stillman, Republican Conspiracy to Deprive Citizens of Free Exercise of Franchise in Maricopa County,” AHF, Box 13/32; Robert Alan Goldberg,
Barry Goldwater
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995), 88; David Saraye,
Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court
(New York: John Wiley, 1992), 307; and Rehnquist confirmation hearings,
Congressional Record,
December 3, 1971, 44640. For network exit polls and postcards, see Bill Leonard,
In the Storm of the Eye: A Lifetime at CBS
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1987), 113.

511
At Goldwater's D.C. election-night headquarters:
author interview with Lee Edwards.
JOHNSON'S EGO MASKS:
Willard Edwards, CT, October 11, 1964.
Goldwater was back home in Arizona: Edwards, Goldwater,
339.

512
He was on the phone constantly:
LBJT, 6411.01/18, 6411.01/19, 6411.01/28, 6411.01/29, 6411.02/2, 6411.02/7. Final totals from White,
Making of the President
1964, 480-81. For Vietnam interjections, see Karen Gullo, “Worries About Vietnam Nagged LBJ,” AP dispatch, September 24, 1999.

512 For Driskell Hotel and Civic Center, see Evans and Novak,
Exercise of Power,
483.

513
“Barry Goldwater not only lost”:
James Reston, NYT, November 5, 1964.

513
“They cannot win in this era”
: Harold Faber, ed.,
The Road to the White House: The Story of the 1964 Election by the Staff of the New York Times
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965), viii.

513
“The Johnson majority,‘Walter Lippmann pronounced”
: Edwards,
Goldwater,
344.

513
If the Republicans become a conservative party:
ibid.

513 For electoral analysis, see Schlesinger, ed.,
History of American Presidential Elections,
3021; White,
Making of the President 1964
, 451-59; Rita Lang Kleinfelder,
When We Were Young: A Baby-Boomer Yearbook
(New York: Prentice-Hall, 1993), 368; Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
522; Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall,
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
(New York: Norton, 1991), 36; and Margolis,
Last Innocent Year,
359. See also
America Votes,
vol. 5 (New York: Macmillan, 1966).

514 For Hattiesburg nuclear tests, see Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
441; NYT, October 18, 1964; and NYT, October 23, 1964.

514 For liberal confidence in Southern election results, see Sam Ragan, “Dixie Looked Away,”
American Scholar
34 (1965).
“One-shot affair”
: WP, November 5, 1964.
Enlightened Republicans:
Ragan, “Dixie Looked Away.”

514
“White Backlash Doesn't Develop”:
NYT, November 5, 1964.
“Leaders of both parties are confident”:
Ragan, “Dixie Looked Away.”
Or Goldwater's overwhelming:
Wayne Barrett, “Remaining the Right,”
Village Voice,
February 9-15, 2000.

515
“Our overriding, overwhelming distrust”:
Edward Brooke,
The Challenge of Change: Crisis in Our Two-Party System
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1966).
“Shattering price”
: Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition, 308. “Bold
,
drastic steps”:
ibid. Mel Laird: ibid.
“The present party leadership”:
ibid.
“If the Lord spares me for 1968”
: ibid. On Nixon: ibid., 309; and Nixon, RN, 325.

515 Installation of Bliss at RNC: Kessel,
Goldwater Coalition,
315.
Lyndon Johnson always said it:
“Atlantic Report on the World Today,”
Atlantic Monthly,
September 1964. For reapportionment decisions as vanquishing of congressional conservatism: Margolis, 1964, 146; and Tom Wicker,
JFK and LBJ: The Influence of Personality upon Politics
(Baltimore: Penguin, 1968), part 2.
“History would have to record”: White, Making of the President 1964
, 140.

516
“The Amateur Hour and After”:
George H. Mayer,
The Republican Party 1854-1966
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), 558.
The nation's leading students:
Edwards,
Goldwater,
344.
“The election results of 1964”:
Schlesinger, ed.,
History of American Presidential Elections,
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