Starting out with the promise of a second Kennedy term only to be cut down in Dallas.  Follow President Johnson's style of governing and how he uses the telephone to enact the Civil Rights Act and find the three missing civil rights workers.Â
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The 1964 Presidential started out completely different than what it ended up being. Riding off from the success of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, President John F. Kennedy was looking stronger; at least with foreign policy. However, at home he was facing a great crisis that might cost him southern states in the 1964 re-election campaign; segregation and civil rights for American negro. That is why in November 1963 Kennedy was headed to two southern states; Florida and Texas to mend political fences particularly in the split Democratic Party of Texas between the more conservative wing headed by Governor John Connally and the more liberal wing headed by Vice President Lyndon Johnson.
In October 1963, UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson went to Dallas, Texas only to be spat upon be demonstrators. Because of this unfortunate incident towards Ambassador Stevenson, Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry went on television days before the President and his party were to come to Dallas and what he expected of them.
What started out as a year of intense issues from civil rights and nuclear war, and a looming war in Vietnam; President Kennedy was looking forward to campaigning on these issues in the upcoming 1964 Presidential Election. Barry Goldwater, the Arizona senator and one of the Republicans vying for the Republican Party Presidential Nomination liked President Kennedy. Senator Goldwater even went to the president with the idea that they travel around the country together on Air Force One and hold impromptu debates on the issues of civil rights, nuclear weapons, and Vietnam.
But before the campaign started, the president had to make two political trips in the south to mend fences within the Democratic Party. President Kennedy knew full well that because of the position both he and his attorney general took on civil rights since late 1962 that he would have a hard time carrying both Florida and Texas. He first went to Florida where assassins were positioned to take the president out, but his movements were too fast that their attempts failed. All of that changed on Friday, November 22, 1963.
What was looking like a successful trip through Texas changed in an instant. While riding in an open limousine on Elm Street in downtown Dallas, Mrs. Nellie Connally turned to President Kennedy and said, "Mr. President, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you." Just then, three shots from the Texas School Book Depository in Dealy Plaza rang out. Lee Harvey Oswald was successful; he had assassinated the President of the United States.
After Vice President Johnson was sworn in as President he wasted no time getting to work. In a job like the presidency it cannot pause with the rest of the country for bereavement. Right away, LBJ started working the phones. Aboard Air Force One he consoled Rose Kennedy. When he got to his office in Washington, he called Harry S Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. He talked with J Edgar Hoover about creating a commission to investigate the killing of President Kennedy. The day before Thanksgiving, President Johnson addressed a Joint Session of Congress and the nation declaring Let Us Continue.
Over the next several months and in the middle of a political campaign; President Johnson worked the phones to pressure both political parties to support President Kennedy's Civil Rights Act. About ten days before the president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, three civil rights workers went down to Mississippi to register black voters in what was known as Freedom Summer. On June 21, 1964, these three young men were kidnapped, beaten, and murdered with their bodies found in Philadelphia, MS.
The other issue in 1964 was that of the war in Vietnam. President Kennedy had sent advisors to Southeast Asia in 1963 and stating in a Labor Day interview with Walter Cronkite that in the final analysis it's their war. They're the ones who will have to win it or lose it.
In August 1964, Vietnam finally became more of a reality to the United States when American ships were attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. President Johnson consulted everyone from top administration officials to even his Republican opponent; Senator Barry Goldwater about the address to the nation that he was going to deliver in order to get all of their advice.
Besides the presidential election there were some other take aways from the 1964 campaign. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy resigned from the Cabinet to run for the US Senate in the state of New York. This is the same seat that Hillary Clinton would hold from 2001 to 2009. While he was running for the US Senate, many accused RFK of being a carpetbagger and an opportunist for a run for the presidency in the Presidential Election of 1968. He could not vote in New York because he did not meet the residency requirements. Kennedy narrowly defeated his opponent, Senator Ken Keating.
In June 1964, Ted Kennedy suffered serious injuries when he and fellow US Senator Birch Bayh were in a plane crash. Senator Kennedy was laid up in a hospital bed for months, so campaigning was left to his wife; Joan Kennedy. Kennedy won re-election to a full six year term in the state of Massachusetts and would remain in that seat until his death in August 2009.
Democratic actor and GE Spokesman, Ronald Reagan made his political debut when in October 1964 he reregistered his party affiliation to Republican and endorsed his in-laws' family friend, Barry Goldwater. Political experts in the 21st Century say that Reagan's a Time for Choosing Speech in support of Barry Goldwater is what launched the modern Republican movement that we still see today.
In the end, the ticket of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey won in a landslide over Barry Goldwater and William Miller with the Democrats winning 486 Electoral Votes or 43,129,040 (61.1 percent) Popular Votes to the Republicans' 52 Electoral Votes or 27,175,754 (38.5 percent) Popular Votes.
This collection starts out with the promise of a second Kennedy term only to be cut down in Dallas just a year before the Election. Follow President Johnson's style of governing and how he uses the telephone to enact the Civil Rights Act and works with the government to find the three missing civil rights workers. You will hear the vision of American from the four candidates for President and Vice President, as well as the supporting actors along the way.
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