Barry Goldwater

(noun)

A businessman and five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election.

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  • Lyndon B. Johnson

Examples of Barry Goldwater in the following topics:

  • Containment in Vietnam

    • For instance, Senator Barry Goldwater , the Republican candidate for president in 1964, challenged containment and asked, "Why not victory?
    • Goldwater was defeated by Lyndon Johnson for the presidency in 1964.
  • The Election of 1964

    • Republican candidate Senator Barry Goldwater could not secure the complete support of own party due to his unpopular conservative political platform.
    • Johnson's campaign successfully portrayed Goldwater as a dangerous extremist; although losing the election by a wide margin, Goldwater became influential to the modern conservative movement, and his so-called extremest views became central to the Republican party.
    • Goldwater argued it was a matter for individual states rather than federal legislation.
    • Although it ran only once, the Daisy Ad evoked fears that Goldwater was an extremist, inclined to nuclear war.
    • Barry Goldwater, Senator from Arizona and Republican Candidate for President in 1964.
  • The New Right

    • The first New Right embraced "fusionism" and coalesced through grassroots organizing in the years preceding the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater.
    • The Goldwater campaign, though failing to unseat incumbent President Lyndon B.
    • The second New Right (1964 to the present) was formed in the wake of the Goldwater campaign and had a more populist tone than the first New Right.
  • Civil Rights and Voting Rights

    • Republican senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona voted against the bill, remarking, "You can't legislate morality."
    • Goldwater had supported previous attempts to pass Civil Rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 as well as the 24th Amendment outlawing the poll tax; however, he rejected the idea of the national government regulating such acts.
  • Containment in Foreign Policy

    • Senator Barry Goldwater, the Republican candidate for president in 1964, challenged containment and asked, "Why not victory?
    • Goldwater lost to Johnson in the general election by a wide margin.
  • Components of a Sentence

    • ., prepositional, participial, infinitive, and appositive phrases): Barry Goldwater, the junior senator from Arizona, received the Republican nomination in 1964.
  • Women of the Civil Rights Movement

    • Johnson, who was seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for reelection; their success would mean that other Southern delegations, who were already leaning toward Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, would publicly break from the convention's decision to nominate Johnson — meaning in turn that he would almost certainly lose those states' electoral votes.
  • How to Incorporate Expert Testimony

    • Search for and watch a TED talk by Barry Schwartz, Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College.
    • A TED talk given by Barry Schwartz demonstrates how to incorporate the testimony of experts to support and clarify claims made during a speech.
  • Marriage to Marie-Antoinette

    • In 1770, Madame du Barry, Louis XV's mistress with considerable political influence, was instrumental in ousting Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, who had helped orchestrate the Franco-Austrian alliance and Marie Antoinette's marriage, and exiling his sister the duchesse de Gramont, one of Marie Antoinette's ladies-in-waiting.
    • Marie Antoinette was persuaded by her husband's aunts to refuse to even acknowledge du Barry, but some saw this as a political blunder that jeopardized Austria's interests at the French court.
    • However, Marie Antoinette's mother and the Austrian ambassador to France, comte de Mercy-Argenteau who was sending the Empress secret reports on Marie-Antoinette's behavior, put Marie Antoinette under pressure and she grudgingly agreed to speak to Madame du Barry.
    • Two days after the death of Louis XV in 1774, Louis XVI exiled Madame du Barry, pleasing his wife and aunts.
  • Hydrogen Oxidation

    • It was identified in 1982 by Barry Marshall and Robin Warren.
    • It was identified in 1982 by Barry Marshall and Robin Warren.
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