Bush, an optimistic view
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1344863,00.html
Philip Bobbitt
Saturday November 6, 2004
The Guardian
The most important election for president in my lifetime is over,
except of course that it wasn't the most important. That distinction
goes to the Johnson/Goldwater election of 1964, in which two opposing
world views of US policy confronted each other at a turning point in
American history. Senator Barry Goldwater was one of only six
Republican senators to oppose the Civil Rights Act of that year; he
opposed Lyndon Johnson's nuclear nonproliferation treaty and suggested
nuclear weapons be considered for use in Vietnam; and he denounced
LBJ's Medicare programme as socialism. So decisive was that election
that, even after six intervening Republican presidencies, none of
these programmes of Johnson's has been reversed.
Philip Bobbitt
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