The Election of 1964

All the way with LBJ!

"In Your Heart, You know He's Right!“

AU H2O for President!

AU H2OFOR

Hubert Humphrey*Born in Wallace, South Dakota

**Family moved to Doland, South Dakota were he spent most of his youth and gradated from High School. ***Went to the University of Minnesota, for two years and do to lack of funding came back to South Dakota.

**** He started and ran a successful Pharmacy in Huron, South Dakota (depression).

***** Upon returning to the U of M he obtained a degree in Political Science

****** In 1945 he ran for Mayor of Minneapolis and won and was mayor until 1948

******* He then ran for US Senate (Minn) and served as Senator until 1964

********When Lyndon Banes Johnson ran for President against Barry Goldwater in 1964, he choose Hubert Humphrey as his VP running mate

********** Johnson won the election and HHH was Vice President until 1969, when Johnson did not run for re-election.

*********** The Hubert Humphrey Historical Highway (Highway 37) in South Dakota runs from Groton, SD to Mitchell, SD going through the towns of Hecla, Groton, Turton, Doland, Huron, Forestberg, Mitchell and Parkston.

*************Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome was just tore down a little more than a year ago.

Question: In order to win an election, should the candidate appeal to what most Americans want or stick to their

core beliefs?• LBJ’s won a

landslide victory for the democratic party in the 1964 election.

• How?

Lyndon B. Johnson• VP to JFK• Democrat (liberal)• Incumbent president• Helped pass the Civil

Rights Act of 1964– Refused to sign

Southern Manifesto• Supporter of New

Deal programs

Who were the Presidential Candidates?

Who were the Candidate?Barry Goldwater

• Republican• Very Conservative

– Rejected New Deal programs

– Wanted to limit the government’s power

– Hawkish position toward Communism

– Voted against the Civil Rights Act

• Credited with resurgence of conservatives

Listen to this speech and write what Goldwater means by, “Extremism is no vice”. How would you

feel about voting for him?

“We are told, however, that many people lack skills and cannot find jobs because they do not have an education…the fact is that most people who have no skills have no education for the same reason- low intelligence or ambition.”

“Sometimes I think that this country would be better off if we could just saw off the Eastern Seaboard and let it float out to sea.”

Where would Goldwater go on the political spectrum according to these 2 quotes and

the political cartoon below?

Political Spectrum

Liberal ConservativeModerate

Johnson Goldwater

How was Goldwater portrayed in the 1964 election?

What was the Daisy Ad and what did it imply about Goldwater?

• Aired only once but was rebroadcast on several networks

• Showed innocent child being annihilated by an atomic bomb.”

• Suggested that Goldwater might lead America to nuclear war.

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Electoral Votes

Vietnam War**Many American voters, especially soldiers voted for Lydon Banes Johnson hoping that Johnson would do what he could to prevent war. The country knew if the extremely conservative, Barry Goldwater was voted in we would go to war in Vietnam, possibly nuclear war.

***Johnson won and we were still in the Vietnam War by August of 1964 after Johnson passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.