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The former president did not say Democrats scream "the sky is falling" when Republicans cut the government budget.
President Donald Trump’s decision to strike three nuclear sites in Iran could deepen a divide among some of the Republican’s ...
The NAACP says it will not invite President Donald Trump to its national convention next month in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Delegates to the Republican National Convention stage a huge demonstration for Senator Barry Goldwater, after his name was placed in nomination for the Presidency. Bettmann / Getty Images There ...
Former Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., son of the late Stephen Shadegg, a longtime Goldwater confidant, ghostwriter and campaign strategist, attended the rowdy 1964 Republican National Convention at ...
Let’s start with former Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) and his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in 1964. Over 50 years before Trump decided to run for president, ...
Barry Goldwater supporters at the 1964 Republican National Convention. Bettmann/Corbis Inside the convention hall, delegates battled over the Vietnam War and the power of the party establishment.
Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in August 1964. (AP Photo) Looking ahead ...
Trump's odds of winning took an even bigger hit in the midst of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, falling from a peak of 71% following the assassination attempt to 63% the morning ...
The last contested convention was the Republican Convention in 1964. In 1972, voters assumed the task, in primaries. Now conventions are publicity extravaganzas — four-day infomercials ...
Sixty years ago, the Republican Party at its 1964 National Convention nominated conservative Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater as its presidential candidate, and I was there.