Would be good to do a new series that compares the change in composition of congress during each of these elections. Perhaps limited to 1900 to present
Omar Omar a lot of people say Barry Goldwater was racist bc he didn’t support the 1964 civil rights act despite approving of every single other civil rights acts
I think you failed to mention just how much effort LBJ threw behind passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He gave all he could give for Congress to not let that bill die and when someone told him it would actually cost him the 1964 Election, LBJ was quoted saying, "If that's the price I have to pay, I'll gladly pay it."
Fun Fact: After narrowly winning the Senate runoff in Texas in 1948, Johnson got the nickname “Landslide Lyndon”. Apparently that nickname aged well 16 years later.
He got the name landslide because it was a shady election and people called him this as a toungue in cheek allusion to the likely fraudulent way he won
They simply could not vote for president of the U.S..as a federal district..and not a state. For those who want District of Columbia statehood..fine, but the original purpose of the district was that the federal government NOT be part of any state. Let the rest of Washington (that is the name of the city, correct?)..be admitted as a guaranteed 3 votes for Democrats, but the capitol grounds should remain a federal district.
@@disoriented1 But the residents get no local representation. They have no senators or representatives and the overwhelmingly democratic voters have their local laws decided by the Republican senate.
The funny thing about Kennedy and Goldwater is that they got along. They disagreed on a lot of things, but still respected each other to the point that Kennedy wrote about Goldwater in his book "Profiles of Courage". Their was actually talks between Goldwater and Kennedy about doing a series of Lincoln/Douglas style debates across America if they ran against each other in 1964. Now, that would of been a interesting election.
There were other cases when politicians across the aisle liked each other personally, outside the political arena. BTW remember "The First Family", a presidential parody with Vaughn Meader as Kennedy? Interviewer: Mr. President, when will we send a man to the moon? Kennedy: Whenever Senator Goldwater wants to go!
Barry Goldwater is not included in "Profiles in Courage." The people mentioned in that book were John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, George Norris, and Robert Taft. Perhaps Mr. Beat could do a video describing why those eight persons were included.
Its actually fascinating when you recognize the Republican party experienced a similar ideological shift like the democratic parties shift to center right due to Reagan. The Republican shift is a direct result of FDR due to his immense popularity which was overwhelming. The republicans were actually far more center and maintained democratic policies after FDR. This ended with Reagan of course, who reinvented the party.
And now we’re seeing another shift within the GOP, more populist and blue collar than Christian and conservative. Seeing GOP making inroads toward rust belt states and picking up endorsements from organized labor is almost unheard of even as recent as before the 2016 election.
@@nightflyer3242 not quite true the GOP is still very christian and conservative they just got more ugly -- the democrats lost a lot of middle class and blue collar do to the weakening of unions and being upset at clinton era democrats for continuing much of the reagan deregulation with made the crash of 08 and obama did not do enough in fix wealth inequality
@@maxwelljarowey2612, to tell you the truth, his ideas of creating more American based jobs made an impact in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the other states of the Rust Belt that had been suffering since the 70s and also due to NAFTA, which Trump opposed.
There's a slight error in this video: it says Johnson was the first Democrat to win Maine and Vermont. While he was indeed the first Dem to win Vermont, Woodrow Wilson won Maine in 1912 (by a plurality, when the Republican vote was split, but a win is still a win).
@Brody Davis Good point. I guess we can say Wilson was the first Dem to win Maine since the birth of the GOP--though it is interesting that Johnson really was the first to win Vermont, period; not even any of the pre-GOP Dems did.
That is BS that Jack Kennedy “despised” Lyndon Johnson. That is a myth invented by baby-boomers who have a fetish for Kennedy and blame Vietnam on Johnson. The two shared a mutual respect.
Fun fact: Mississippi elected its first Republican Congressman of the twentieth century in this election. W. Arthur Winstead, a Dixiecrat who had been in Congress since the 1940s, was the only member of Mississippi's delegation unlucky enough to have a GOP opponent in 1964, and was soundly beaten thanks to Goldwater's coattails. It really does show there were actually two landslides: one in Johnson's favor nationally, and one in Goldwater's favor in the Deep South.
My county in Georgia was solid Democrat (states' rights Democrat) that year, but there were Goldwater stickers on cars all over the place. We also had "Get Us Out of the UN!" billboards everywhere. JFK had been called a "Socialist" and LBJ was seen as a "N Lover." Four years later, Nixon and Wallace fought for the southern white vote, while Humphrey took the black vote.
And three years later the major slogan was: Hey Hey LBJ, how many kids have you killed today. I will believe, that this guy played a major role in killing his president John F. Kennedy and also his brother Robert! I mean, it's mostly suspicious, that Kennedy was killed in Johnsons Home State.
@@upulor744 he means Johnson would become president if JFK died”the most to gain” and he did die there was a big party thrown the night before his asassination by some powerful people also the infamous smile Johnson gave congressman Thomas after being inaugrerated at AF1 also JFK didn’t want Israel to have nuclear weapons and Zionists including LBJ disagreed with this and couped JFK via patsy
Not American but have been interested in Presidential history for some time. Started watching these election videos today; excellent stuff and well conveyed. Keep up the good work.
From 1856 through 1988 the Pine Tree State voted for the D presidential ticket exactly thrice - 1912, 1964, 1968! After the fall of the Soviet Union the Democrats won its EC votes, except for two occasions - 1 vote in 2016 and 1 vote in 2020.
"Landslide Lyndon" actually came from his primary win against Coke Stevenson in the 1948 contest for US senate; in fact he barely prevailed, thus meant as a joke - at first.
Johnson had the same cabinet and virtually the same advisors that Kennedy did. Thus, I believe it is a myth that had Kennedy lived he would have pulled the US out of Vietnam. JFK would have stayed the course in Vietnam, just as Johnson did.
Except that he wasn't afraid to go against his advisors, the Cuban Missile Crisis being the best example. Even though his generals told him to bomb Cuba he said Nope! And opted for the blockade which prevented WWIII. I read somewhere that when Eisenhower left office he warned Kennedy about the Military Industrial Complex and I guess Kennedy took his advice. If you listen to his Peace Speech he gave in 1963 I don't think he would have gone deeper into the escalation in Nam. Read historian Robert Dallek's book The Unfinished Life on JFK. Dallek makes a strong case that JFK would have withdrawn from Vietnam if he had lived and served a second term.
A lot of people criticise Goldwater for being a radical but for today's standards, he would be seen as quite a moderate when compared to much of the GOP. He even supported things such as access to abortions and legalisation of marijuana, and he hated the takeover of the party by the Christian right in the 90s. While I disagree with some of his positions such as his opposition to the civil rights act (albeit this was in principle as he believed that it should have been a matter for the states) I would say he was an underrated politician
That popular vote really isn't brought up much because of the great limitations as to whom could vote... generally wealthy white landowners. Even with that, many states did not have a popular vote at all. It wasn't widely used until 1824 if I'm not mistaken.
Good Video, as usual, Mr. Beat. I remember The Daisy Girl & The Bomb as A Death Blow to Barry Goldwater's Campaign (well, After The Fact, since I'd only been nearly 3 years old - LOL).
Barry Goldwater, a man I heard speak in person in that campaign when I was 5 (in your home state of Kansas), was the nicest, most amiable, enjoyable and sincere person who would have destroyed the world within one year of taking the presidential oath.
@@supersejkaj3093 It is deserved, specifically calling Barry Goldwater someone who would destroy the world, people who think this are dumb and deserve to be called out
@@singed54 How do you think he would have handled Checkpoint Charlie or The Cuba Crisis. If any similar thing would have happened during his presidency, he would have probably been more aggressive.
Good video, but one thing: Maine had infancy voted democratic before. More specifically, 1832,1836,1844-1852, and 1912. Just a little thing. But the rest is great! Keep it up!
Yeah because especially back then a politician switching parties was basically political suicide. But the voters who had been supporting the dixiecrats and other 3rd parties that got triggered that the Democrats were becoming more liberal began voting Republican in this election and in subsequent elections. Basically the same ole southern conservatives. Barry Goldwater's mindset is what created the modern Republican party and which is what Nixon and Reagan carried on with
@@terraincognita9361 yeah I know but he pandered to racists. For example he personally was against segregation but he was for popular sovereignty on the issue so he would let it occur in states where it already existed since the obvious majority white population in the deep south would vote so
Creepy Closet I am not aware that he supported this. As far as I remember he opposed the Civil Rights Act of 64 because of support for the right to private discrimination, and otherwise ran a sort of Raeganite fiscally conservative hawkish campaign
@@terraincognita9361 well you just repeated what I said in that he wasnt racist but he appeased them. He did that by voting against the civil rights act based on popular sovereignty. But yeah on the other issues he ran on are basically the bedrock of the modern Republican party
Fun fact, the Alabama Democratic Party refused to support Johnson. He wasn't even on the ballot in Alabama. The ballot just said Democratic Party instead of Lyndon Johnson.
There is a written memo by J.F.K. about his intention to withdraw from Vietnam,and he is on record in a recorded interview with Walter Cronkite as saying" in the final analysis its their( the south Vietnamese) war to win. "At the assasination there were 11,000 advisors in Nam.Two years later L.B.J had 500,000 troops there. 60,000 lost their lives there including two of my good friends.
Please read the rest of JFK’s statement to Walter Cronkite in that interview. He said we should not withdraw from South Vietnam. Oliver Stone told a half truth.
JFK never wanted to withdraw from Vietnam (and rightly so), but he probably would’ve handled the war much better than Johnson. But then again he botched the Bay of Pigs Invasion so who knows.
Technically this was the second time Maine voted Democratic. The first time was in 1912, though that was mainly because Teddy Roosevelt and Taft badly split the Republican vote in that state.
Goldwater wasn't a great candidate, but he's not the only reason LBJ won big in 1964. The nation rallied around Johnson after Kennedy was shot, and that more than anything else lead to his huge victory. I like your videos, but I'm surprised you missed that.
This was the last time Alaska Nebraska Wyoming Idaho Oklahoma Both Dakotas Utah and Kansas voted Democrat And the District of Columbia voted for the very first time
Nebraska’s 2nd district though has become a swing after Obama carried it in 2008 earning an electoral vote in a state lost in a landslide and then in 2020 it gave Biden the same margin Romeny carried it with in 2012
Ok Beat, you're great at what you do. For some reason your intro reminds me of Bullwinkle. I'd probably say Bullwinkle was my favorite cartoon as a preschool kid. Anyway, I figure you probably would like LBJ. He's the first president I remember but I didn't understand anything going on. I and my late stepfather think he was a Communist. I identified with a group of Republicans referred to as Reagan-Buckley-Goldwater Republicans for many years. I have to interject, I didn't know that Barry Goldwater or Lyndon Johnson even existed at the time. The earliest year I can remember anything first hand was 1965, and only a couple of things. This is the election that my late stepfather said caused him to never vote again. I was 19 months old when Kennedy was assassinated. Reagan was my first vote for president, and second.
@@mikeingersoll7344 not really? Usually democrats since Kennedy have been fine when it comes to foreign policy. War isn't the only thing involved with foreign policy. Like when obama was President he was more respected by our major allies than trump by a long shot in a more recent comparison
@@Бронированныйбульдозер A lot of Americans still survive on Work Study, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Financial Aid. I would be dead if it was not for many of these programs, and same goes to millions.
I found that Minnesotans vote for Minnesotans all the time! Hubert Humphery, Mondale, Tim Kaine! All from Minnesota, and Minnesotans vote for them! Right?
@@tamilly7941 I think he was trying to make some insinuation that Tim Kaine is a carpetbagger. He made the comment 2 years ago, which is curious, considering that Tim Kaine's Senate opponent 2 years ago was also born in Minnesota.
@@soapeydudd.93 it’s pointing out the fact that he stood not for hate but for liberty, as he believed that the civil rights act put the government too much in business, his views on gay rights would’ve been considered radically social justice at the time
@@AnglicanFish he stood for hate by favoring to halt government action that was very much needed to end a problem caused because of government allowing segregation. segregation of people on the basis of skin color is by default anti liberty. his only influence is that he created a movement of racist individuals feeling that they had a home in the republican party, a huge shift from the party of lincoln. goldwater had no affect on shifting the republican party to be pro gay marriage or pro abortion, so my original comment still stands and his stance on those issues become irrelevant when his legacy has nothing to do with those issues.
Nah, Goldwater was very pro-civil rights, he supported desegregation in Arizona, he was a member of the NAACP, he voted in favor of the 24th amendment, and he voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 while in committee, but reluctantly voted against it in the senate. only voted against the civil rights act of 1964 because of Title II and VII, which both dealt with employment, because he didn't want the government to control the hiring and firing policies of Americans. So cut it with this leftist bs that he was some racist segregationist, because Goldwater was against racism and segregation. It just so happened however that Goldwater was pro-liberty, and believed in principle, that employers should be able to hire and fire whoever they want, and he was right about that.
In 1964, I was an engaged and knowledgeable 11 yr. old. And a Goldwater man! I saw him speak from the back of a train. A large group of students from the college in town were there chanting "In your guts you know he's nuts!" Goldwater stopped in the middle of his speech and said, "Shut up! I'll talk to you when I'm done." And he did. This was less than a year after JFK (Goldwater's good friend from the Senate) was assassinated, but old Barry hopped down from the train and got right in the middle of them. At 70, my politics are vastly different, but I still admire the man.
Love how you feature music from the year in the background. But maybe choose 2 or 3 songs to cover the segment instead of playing the same song over and over. I now have The Beach Boys (and Chubby Checker and The Beatles) stuck in my head.
Its been cool seeing you notice my comments, i know i can be hypernolic at times but i am genuine. Keep up the good work dude, I love the music to the extreme view and images.
Here’s an interesting fact that I learned about this election, Barry Goldwater died on my birthday and I don’t mean just the day, he literally died on my day of birth. Yes, I’m pretty young and I love this stuff.
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Mr Beat: Almost a full year before this, John F. Kennedy was assassinated while visiting Texas, leaving the nation shocked and heartbroken. The background: round round, get around, *I get around*
He said that the popular vote margin of 22.6% is the most lopsided election. Reagan’s margin of victory in the popular vote in 1984 was 18.2% which is less than Johnson’s 22.6% popular vote margin of victory.
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Would be good to do a new series that compares the change in composition of congress during each of these elections. Perhaps limited to 1900 to present
This was also the only election to date that Alaska went Democratic.
Also the last time Idaho Wyoming uath north Dakota south Dakota all of Nebraska kansas and Oklahoma went democrat
the questioner also last time my home state, Indiana, went democratic until 2008
3 And a half 1964 was also the first time in history a Republican won Georgia.
Nathan Wambolt true
It's fair to say that this election was one of firsts
Johnson in '64: Goldwater is an extremist who will destroy the world. I will bring peace.
Johnson in '65: Vietnam, here we come!
Goldwater supported gay marriage
Omar Omar a lot of people say Barry Goldwater was racist bc he didn’t support the 1964 civil rights act despite approving of every single other civil rights acts
johnson knew that if he said he would continue vietnam goldwater would win,so he used lies to his advantage.
@@newstartyt3700 Goldwater never could have won that
@@TheChosennn and being a member of the naacp.
I think you failed to mention just how much effort LBJ threw behind passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He gave all he could give for Congress to not let that bill die and when someone told him it would actually cost him the 1964 Election, LBJ was quoted saying, "If that's the price I have to pay, I'll gladly pay it."
It basically cost the Democrats the South for over 50 years.
Aint that much anyways
@@MP-dn4bs It basically took away 85% of the black vote
@@kingdomofbird8174 over half of the black vote lives in the south where it is overwhelmed by a white majority voting republican
@@mike04574 could've been a different story if Rockefeller won the republican nomination instead
Plays "I get around by The Beach Boys" while showing Kennedy in the infamous car ride in Texas. 😂
Heath N my thoughts exactly
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That’s nothing. He played “Yeah” when talking about 9/11.
Lol
@RYLE SALUNGA, watch Mr. Beat’s 2004 presidential election video. You’re very welcome.
Fun Fact: After narrowly winning the Senate runoff in Texas in 1948, Johnson got the nickname “Landslide Lyndon”. Apparently that nickname aged well 16 years later.
I like catchy alliteration nicknames such as "Landslide Lyndon".
He didn't win the 1948 Senate runoff. He _stole_ it. 15 years later, he won the White House, not with ballots, but with _bullets_
He got the name landslide because it was a shady election and people called him this as a toungue in cheek allusion to the likely fraudulent way he won
Because he cheated and stuffed ballot boxes - but his opponent couldn’t accuse him of anything because he was cheating too LOL
You forgot to mention that this was the first time that Washington DC had electoral votes in an election. Otherwise, great video!
@@katalbinson6562 62
where did the votes in dc go, maryland?
They simply could not vote for president of the U.S..as a federal district..and not a state. For those who want District of Columbia statehood..fine, but the original purpose of the district was that the federal government NOT be part of any state. Let the rest of Washington (that is the name of the city, correct?)..be admitted as a guaranteed 3 votes for Democrats, but the capitol grounds should remain a federal district.
@@disoriented1 But the residents get no local representation. They have no senators or representatives and the overwhelmingly democratic voters have their local laws decided by the Republican senate.
ABK TV They couldn't vote for president, like Puerto Rico. They still have no representation in Congress.
Not only was this the first time Vermont voted Democratic, this was the first time Georgia voted Republican.
Nice work Mr. Beat!
Thank you sir. I really like your channel and I'm glad I stumbled across it today!
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The funny thing about Kennedy and Goldwater is that they got along. They disagreed on a lot of things, but still respected each other to the point that Kennedy wrote about Goldwater in his book "Profiles of Courage". Their was actually talks between Goldwater and Kennedy about doing a series of Lincoln/Douglas style debates across America if they ran against each other in 1964. Now, that would of been a interesting election.
There were other cases when politicians across the aisle liked each other personally, outside the political arena.
BTW remember "The First Family", a presidential parody with Vaughn Meader as Kennedy?
Interviewer: Mr. President, when will we send a man to the moon?
Kennedy: Whenever Senator Goldwater wants to go!
Barry Goldwater is not included in "Profiles in Courage." The people mentioned in that book were John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, George Norris, and Robert Taft. Perhaps Mr. Beat could do a video describing why those eight persons were included.
This was the first election that dc voted it always stay democrat
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lol, baldski
@@rickyclinton2848 yes
Its actually fascinating when you recognize the Republican party experienced a similar ideological shift like the democratic parties shift to center right due to Reagan. The Republican shift is a direct result of FDR due to his immense popularity which was overwhelming. The republicans were actually far more center and maintained democratic policies after FDR. This ended with Reagan of course, who reinvented the party.
And now we’re seeing another shift within the GOP, more populist and blue collar than Christian and conservative. Seeing GOP making inroads toward rust belt states and picking up endorsements from organized labor is almost unheard of even as recent as before the 2016 election.
@@nightflyer3242 not quite true the GOP is still very christian and conservative they just got more ugly -- the democrats lost a lot of middle class and blue collar do to the weakening of unions and being upset at clinton era democrats for continuing much of the reagan deregulation with made the crash of 08 and obama did not do enough in fix wealth inequality
Gop start become more conservative from 1920s remember Calvin coolidge
@@nightflyer3242 but they refuse to leave the racism
@@maxwelljarowey2612, to tell you the truth, his ideas of creating more American based jobs made an impact in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the other states of the Rust Belt that had been suffering since the 70s and also due to NAFTA, which Trump opposed.
There's a slight error in this video: it says Johnson was the first Democrat to win Maine and Vermont. While he was indeed the first Dem to win Vermont, Woodrow Wilson won Maine in 1912 (by a plurality, when the Republican vote was split, but a win is still a win).
@Brody Davis Good point. I guess we can say Wilson was the first Dem to win Maine since the birth of the GOP--though it is interesting that Johnson really was the first to win Vermont, period; not even any of the pre-GOP Dems did.
You are correct
In that particular race, the maine republican party endorsed Teddy's campaign taft failed to carry a single county in the state
The irony if your looking at this from the jfk angle is, he despised lbj, and while he deeply opposed goldwaters views, they were personall friends.
Thank you for this comment.
That is BS that Jack Kennedy “despised” Lyndon Johnson. That is a myth invented by baby-boomers who have a fetish for Kennedy and blame Vietnam on Johnson.
The two shared a mutual respect.
Kennedy and Goldwater both contemplated running against each other in ‘64.
@@scottaznavourian5791 That is myth that Kennedy despised Johnson. And Kennedy was actually right wing.
Fun fact: Mississippi elected its first Republican Congressman of the twentieth century in this election. W. Arthur Winstead, a Dixiecrat who had been in Congress since the 1940s, was the only member of Mississippi's delegation unlucky enough to have a GOP opponent in 1964, and was soundly beaten thanks to Goldwater's coattails. It really does show there were actually two landslides: one in Johnson's favor nationally, and one in Goldwater's favor in the Deep South.
My county in Georgia was solid Democrat (states' rights Democrat) that year, but there were Goldwater stickers on cars all over the place. We also had "Get Us Out of the UN!" billboards everywhere. JFK had been called a "Socialist" and LBJ was seen as a "N Lover." Four years later, Nixon and Wallace fought for the southern white vote, while Humphrey took the black vote.
I think my favorite part of this series is how Mr. Beat uses contemporary music to the time periods of each election.
Three years after the election, bumper stickers began to appear reading, "don't blame me. I voted for Goldwater."
They were right lol
Us in 3 yrs
And three years later the major slogan was: Hey Hey LBJ, how many kids have you killed today.
I will believe, that this guy played a major role in killing his president John F. Kennedy and also his brother Robert! I mean, it's mostly suspicious, that Kennedy was killed in Johnsons Home State.
@Uncle Um what? Johnson had already dropped out of the race by the time Kennedy was assassinated.
@@upulor744 he means Johnson would become president if JFK died”the most to gain” and he did die there was a big party thrown the night before his asassination by some powerful people also the infamous smile Johnson gave congressman Thomas after being inaugrerated at AF1 also JFK didn’t want Israel to have nuclear weapons and Zionists including LBJ disagreed with this and couped JFK via patsy
Not American but have been interested in Presidential history for some time. Started watching these election videos today; excellent stuff and well conveyed. Keep up the good work.
+Donald Dewar Thank you so much! Glad you stumbled upon them :)
@@iammrbeat 4 years later but Same goes for me. Interesting to see where the whole “party swap” happened
It just doesn’t feel right seeing Wyoming and Alaska all blue
In 2006 Wyoming re elected it Democrat governor and Hawaii re elected it Republican governor
2:13 There is a Bridge in Brandenburg, KY named after the guy who won Indiana, Matthew E. Welsh. It connects KY and Indiana.
Maine had actually voted Democrat once before this election. It was 1912 for Woodrow Wilson
Jacob Dupre and 1856
Oh
Don’t forget 1832,1836, 1844,1848 and 1852 but I don’t think it counts because the Republicans did not exist yet in those elections
From 1856 through 1988 the Pine Tree State voted for the D presidential ticket exactly thrice - 1912, 1964, 1968! After the fall of the Soviet Union the Democrats won its EC votes, except for two occasions - 1 vote in 2016 and 1 vote in 2020.
But it was split between Talf and Teddy
They don't call him Landslide Johnson for nothing.
Indeed.
"Landslide Lyndon" actually came from his primary win against Coke Stevenson in the 1948 contest for US senate; in fact he barely prevailed, thus meant as a joke - at first.
I see you used “I Get Around” by the Beach Boys, I love that song
That was a big hit in 1964.
@@iammrbeat i lowkey dislike the song but i dislike goldwater even more so it evens out rofl
@@epikmatrixerix6644 Goldwater was based
Please explain to me how you can “see” music...?
@@elliot7753 didn’t ask bro.
Johnson had the same cabinet and virtually the same advisors that Kennedy did. Thus, I believe it is a myth that had Kennedy lived he would have pulled the US out of Vietnam. JFK would have stayed the course in Vietnam, just as Johnson did.
You could be right. It's hard to tell, but the more I think about it, that's plausible.
Except that he wasn't afraid to go against his advisors, the Cuban Missile Crisis being the best example. Even though his generals told him to bomb Cuba he said Nope! And opted for the blockade which prevented WWIII. I read somewhere that when Eisenhower left office he warned Kennedy about the Military Industrial Complex and I guess Kennedy took his advice. If you listen to his Peace Speech he gave in 1963 I don't think he would have gone deeper into the escalation in Nam. Read historian Robert Dallek's book The Unfinished Life on JFK. Dallek makes a strong case that JFK would have withdrawn from Vietnam if he had lived and served a second term.
Nah after the bay pigs he wasn't going into war with a flimsy premise with no concrete plans once bitten twice shy
JFK is overrated
Saswat Rath Absolutely!
Mr. Beats, I like this show very much. I think I watch all of your videos of this show. I thank you very much!
+Jett For President Well thank you so much for the kind words. :)
Mr Beat You Was Right About Vermont, But Woodrow Wilson Won In Maine In 1912
Lavínia Tudo yep i was thinking the same thing
And Franklin Pierce won Maine in 1852
Also Polk did it and many more democrats but until 1960s Maine starts to become more democrat as the republicans start becoming more conservative
@@K.C.-Games 1990s actually
As a huge history buff and Beach Boys fan, this video is a goldmine.
Ok bud
A lot of people criticise Goldwater for being a radical but for today's standards, he would be seen as quite a moderate when compared to much of the GOP. He even supported things such as access to abortions and legalisation of marijuana, and he hated the takeover of the party by the Christian right in the 90s. While I disagree with some of his positions such as his opposition to the civil rights act (albeit this was in principle as he believed that it should have been a matter for the states) I would say he was an underrated politician
5:12 the election of 1804 was more lopsided, Jefferson got over 70% of the popular vote (of states that recorded popular vote)
That popular vote really isn't brought up much because of the great limitations as to whom could vote... generally wealthy white landowners. Even with that, many states did not have a popular vote at all. It wasn't widely used until 1824 if I'm not mistaken.
Don't forget the 1824 election, in which Monroe got 84% of the popular vote
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And thus, the continued polarization of the two parties begins.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this but Maine voted democrat during the 1912 election.
Good Video, as usual, Mr. Beat. I remember The Daisy Girl & The Bomb as A Death Blow to Barry Goldwater's Campaign (well, After The Fact, since I'd only been nearly 3 years old - LOL).
Missed opportunity, should have said LBJ is no Jack Kennedy
Yeah.
He was better and got of his bottom and actually got things done unlike Jack who was more interested in chasing bottom’s of young women.
Consider yourself special, these are the only times i voluntary watch history homework material videos
I love this series, will you cover the Election of 2020, as well?
no
If you had a colour picture in the 60s you were cool 😎
Why does Hubert Humphrey look like Quinton Tarantino?
This election is the last time in which a Democrat got over 400 electoral votes and over 60% of the popular vote.
Mr Beats:Most fear based election in American history
2020 election: hold my beer
I’d be way more scared of Goldwater than trump. He literally said he wanted to drop a low yield atomic bomb on the Chinese supply lines to Vietnam.
Goldwater likely would have invaded North Vietnam if he was president.
No, that is recency bias. 2020 does not compare to the 1964 election in regard to fear.
Barry Goldwater, a man I heard speak in person in that campaign when I was 5 (in your home state of Kansas), was the nicest, most amiable, enjoyable and sincere person who would have destroyed the world within one year of taking the presidential oath.
Thats possibly the most retarded take i have heard in a lifetime, do you even have 2 braincells to rub together?
@@singed54 "Dumb people are always blissfully unaware of how dumb they really are" Patrick Star
@@singed54 People having the need to call other people retarded are most often not the brightest themselves
@@supersejkaj3093 It is deserved, specifically calling Barry Goldwater someone who would destroy the world, people who think this are dumb and deserve to be called out
@@singed54 How do you think he would have handled Checkpoint Charlie or The Cuba Crisis. If any similar thing would have happened during his presidency, he would have probably been more aggressive.
Good video, but one thing: Maine had infancy voted democratic before. More specifically, 1832,1836,1844-1852, and 1912. Just a little thing. But the rest is great! Keep it up!
I cant forget that sound of Mr beat's eco saying PRESIDENTAL ELECTIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORYYYY!!!!!!!!!! in my head
The only Dixiecrat that changed from Democrat to Republican was Strom Thurmond.
Yeah because especially back then a politician switching parties was basically political suicide. But the voters who had been supporting the dixiecrats and other 3rd parties that got triggered that the Democrats were becoming more liberal began voting Republican in this election and in subsequent elections. Basically the same ole southern conservatives. Barry Goldwater's mindset is what created the modern Republican party and which is what Nixon and Reagan carried on with
Creepy Closet Goldwater wasn’t racist like Thurmond tho
@@terraincognita9361 yeah I know but he pandered to racists. For example he personally was against segregation but he was for popular sovereignty on the issue so he would let it occur in states where it already existed since the obvious majority white population in the deep south would vote so
Creepy Closet I am not aware that he supported this. As far as I remember he opposed the Civil Rights Act of 64 because of support for the right to private discrimination, and otherwise ran a sort of Raeganite fiscally conservative hawkish campaign
@@terraincognita9361 well you just repeated what I said in that he wasnt racist but he appeased them. He did that by voting against the civil rights act based on popular sovereignty. But yeah on the other issues he ran on are basically the bedrock of the modern Republican party
From what I recall, JFK had only sent in military advisors into Vietnam, not soldiers, and he wanted to deescalate tensions after Diem was couped.
Great work Mr. Beat I think I should do the same with midterms or elections in Canada
Fun fact, the Alabama Democratic Party refused to support Johnson. He wasn't even on the ballot in Alabama. The ballot just said Democratic Party instead of Lyndon Johnson.
Goldwater got 69.5% of the vote in Alabama.
thank you so much mr beat
You bet Jakob!
Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel A Democrat won Maine in 1912(Woodrow Wilson)
Jacky Mo hey I only said Vermont
This election has the best soundtrack. Period
Great video! You can ABSOLUTELY draw a straight line from 1964 to 1980.
There is a written memo by J.F.K. about his intention to withdraw from Vietnam,and he is on record in a recorded interview with Walter Cronkite as saying" in the final analysis its their( the south Vietnamese) war to win. "At the assasination there were 11,000 advisors in Nam.Two years later L.B.J had 500,000 troops there. 60,000 lost their lives there including two of my good friends.
Please read the rest of JFK’s statement to Walter Cronkite in that interview. He said we should not withdraw from South Vietnam. Oliver Stone told a half truth.
@@brianarbenz7206 I agree. I can't imagine JFK in full presidential campaign could even imagine the Vietnam withdrawing
JFK never wanted to withdraw from Vietnam (and rightly so), but he probably would’ve handled the war much better than Johnson. But then again he botched the Bay of Pigs Invasion so who knows.
yep.
Technically this was the second time Maine voted Democratic. The first time was in 1912, though that was mainly because Teddy Roosevelt and Taft badly split the Republican vote in that state.
Also in 1852, Maine voting Democrat
Goldwater wasn't a great candidate, but he's not the only reason LBJ won big in 1964. The nation rallied around Johnson after Kennedy was shot, and that more than anything else lead to his huge victory. I like your videos, but I'm surprised you missed that.
I don't understand why. After all, it was Johnson who killed Kennedy in the first place
This was the last time
Alaska Nebraska Wyoming Idaho Oklahoma Both Dakotas Utah and Kansas voted Democrat
And the District of Columbia voted for the very first time
Nebraska’s 2nd district though has become a swing after Obama carried it in 2008 earning an electoral vote in a state lost in a landslide and then in 2020 it gave Biden the same margin Romeny carried it with in 2012
5:37 The 1948 and 1988 campaigns were plenty "fear-based" too. By the way, that "Daisy Girl" advert actually aired only once!
Ok Beat, you're great at what you do. For some reason your intro reminds me of Bullwinkle. I'd probably say Bullwinkle was my favorite cartoon as a preschool kid. Anyway, I figure you probably would like LBJ. He's the first president I remember but I didn't understand anything going on. I and my late stepfather think he was a Communist. I identified with a group of Republicans referred to as Reagan-Buckley-Goldwater Republicans for many years. I have to interject, I didn't know that Barry Goldwater or Lyndon Johnson even existed at the time. The earliest year I can remember anything first hand was 1965, and only a couple of things. This is the election that my late stepfather said caused him to never vote again. I was 19 months old when Kennedy was assassinated. Reagan was my first vote for president, and second.
I think LBJ had a great domestic policy, but a horrible foreign policy.
D gaming as do all Democrats
lol wut? War om poverty was cancer, and is living up today. It really created the aid for parasites, with ypur money.
@@mikeingersoll7344 not really? Usually democrats since Kennedy have been fine when it comes to foreign policy. War isn't the only thing involved with foreign policy. Like when obama was President he was more respected by our major allies than trump by a long shot in a more recent comparison
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@@Бронированныйбульдозер A lot of Americans still survive on Work Study, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Financial Aid. I would be dead if it was not for many of these programs, and same goes to millions.
I found that Minnesotans vote for Minnesotans all the time! Hubert Humphery, Mondale, Tim Kaine! All from Minnesota, and Minnesotans vote for them! Right?
Kaine is from Virginia
@@tamilly7941 I think he was trying to make some insinuation that Tim Kaine is a carpetbagger. He made the comment 2 years ago, which is curious, considering that Tim Kaine's Senate opponent 2 years ago was also born in Minnesota.
I wouldn't be surprised if Jesse "The Body" Ventura, if he ever decided to run for President, that Minnesotans would be voting for him.
I wish their Debate was on UA-cam! I figured it would be since The JFK vs Nixon (1960) Debate is on here.
After the 1960 debate, there was no Presidential debates until 1976.
@@K.C.-Games Oh Okay I didn't know that! I wonder why!
Fun Fact: Future vice president Walter Mondale was chosen to replace Hubert Humphrey in the Senate.
Rip JFK he was an inspiring man
Fun fact Barry Goldwater only picked William Miller as his running mate. Because he knew LBJ hated him.
Love that song. Great choice of music
What song is it?
@@sirdaddy2714 The Beach Boys’ “I Get Around”
0:34, he was no jack kennedy!
There were more people living in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois than there were living In Texas in 1964. How things have changed.
Great content. The music is quite distracting. I would use this as a teaching tool if not for the soundtrack.
"Made up attacks" The USS Maddox was literally put in for repairs and General Giap said he had ordered the first attack in a 1995 interview.
That’s not true Woodrow Wilson also won the state of Maine in the election of 1912
goldwaters stance on civil/states rights has since had detrimental effects on the republican party
Actually he supported gay rights, and the right to an abortion
@@AnglicanFish that doesn’t take away from his attempt to push back the fight for civil rights for racial minorities
@@soapeydudd.93 it’s pointing out the fact that he stood not for hate but for liberty, as he believed that the civil rights act put the government too much in business, his views on gay rights would’ve been considered radically social justice at the time
@@AnglicanFish he stood for hate by favoring to halt government action that was very much needed to end a problem caused because of government allowing segregation. segregation of people on the basis of skin color is by default anti liberty. his only influence is that he created a movement of racist individuals feeling that they had a home in the republican party, a huge shift from the party of lincoln. goldwater had no affect on shifting the republican party to be pro gay marriage or pro abortion, so my original comment still stands and his stance on those issues become irrelevant when his legacy has nothing to do with those issues.
Nah, Goldwater was very pro-civil rights, he supported desegregation in Arizona, he was a member of the NAACP, he voted in favor of the 24th amendment, and he voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 while in committee, but reluctantly voted against it in the senate. only voted against the civil rights act of 1964 because of Title II and VII, which both dealt with employment, because he didn't want the government to control the hiring and firing policies of Americans. So cut it with this leftist bs that he was some racist segregationist, because Goldwater was against racism and segregation. It just so happened however that Goldwater was pro-liberty, and believed in principle, that employers should be able to hire and fire whoever they want, and he was right about that.
I don't believe that about Kennedy wanting to leave Vietnam as I remember he was staying the course up to that point .
Personally I don't think the war would've lasted as long have Kennedy not been killed but in the end we will never know
Lol when lobs voted for johnson because they were antiwar, but got war anyway. Huge mistake.
Kinda like Bush
David Larocque
“I don’t think our troops should be used for what’s called nation building.”
- George Bush 2000
Guy43
He kept his promise, the troops weren’t used for nation building in Iraq, which is where Bush and his administration messed up.
I've read Barry Goldwater's autobiography and he stated Robert McNamara was the one who pressed Johnson to escalate the Vietnam war.
1:07.........The US Navy was never, ever attacked by the Viet Cong in the Gulf of Tonkin. They were attacked by North Vietnamese Navy gunboats.
5:14 wow!
In 1964, I was an engaged and knowledgeable 11 yr. old. And a Goldwater man! I saw him speak from the back of a train. A large group of students from the college in town were there chanting "In your guts you know he's nuts!" Goldwater stopped in the middle of his speech and said, "Shut up! I'll talk to you when I'm done." And he did. This was less than a year after JFK (Goldwater's good friend from the Senate) was assassinated, but old Barry hopped down from the train and got right in the middle of them. At 70, my politics are vastly different, but I still admire the man.
Vermont broke its 104 year streak of voting rsįpublican this election
These are seriously entertaining good job :)
Love how you feature music from the year in the background. But maybe choose 2 or 3 songs to cover the segment instead of playing the same song over and over. I now have The Beach Boys (and Chubby Checker and The Beatles) stuck in my head.
Its been cool seeing you notice my comments, i know i can be hypernolic at times but i am genuine. Keep up the good work dude, I love the music to the extreme view and images.
If Arizona stayed red in 1996, it would’ve voted republican for every election since 1952!
Not anymore
@@nubscrub1840 it’s still in play now, believe me
Roblox Rocc lol okay buddy
@@wassemasse it was close. less than 10,000 votes. Just like how Clinton would've won in a "landslide".
@@cpawlak07 FL was red in '00 even though Bush only won by 537 votes
Goldwater is one of my favorites
What a time when Republicans could criticize someone for being too right-wing
You mean like half of the party does with Donald Trump?
Here’s an interesting fact that I learned about this election, Barry Goldwater died on my birthday and I don’t mean just the day, he literally died on my day of birth. Yes, I’m pretty young and I love this stuff.
Crazy right
I’ll have them n***as voting Democrat for the next 200 years -Lyndon B Johnson
JAYDOG XL, 4:13
Whoosh.
I’m not a Democrat nor a Republican. I’m just sharing something about myself. If you don’t like my profile picture, then kindly go away. If somebody had something I don’t agree, I don’t go and start arguing, I just ignore it. That’s what you should have done, just walk away.
@@Jaydog11
no proof he ever said that
5:44 while it was the first time Vermont voted democrat maine had voted democrat in 1912 and 1852 but good video
I guess this is the election of the party switch
Quiz time.
Kennedy died and Johnson became president.
So who was vice-president throughout 1964?
I think there was no VP until LBJ was elected in his own right.
Song choice is 🔥
Mr Beat: Almost a full year before this, John F. Kennedy was assassinated while visiting Texas, leaving the nation shocked and heartbroken.
The background: round round, get around, *I get around*
This was the party switch
It started in 1948 and by 1968 the south was basically all Republicans
The party switch started in the 30s
Wait, leaders of the KKK supported Goldwater? Wasn’t he half-Jewish?
Make sure you don't tell them that
I love the "I get around" lyric playing when we're talking about further intervention into Vietnam and more proxy wars against Communists.
"This was about as fear based as it got for presidential elections." Doesn't that apply more to Nixon's campaigne with the southern strategy ?
You should have mentioned that this was the first Presidential election residents of Washington DC could vote in.
they just called him a radical and extremist? Child's play compared to 2020
*The American Presidential Election of 1964...*
...or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Although this was the election where the Republicans began their dominance of the South
rlt152 76 and 68 didn’t show much thought and it wasn’t a landslide in both 90s election
Ah the classic Racist Party Switch myth
bjehulk yep hear that all the time
@@bjehulk search something called "The Southern Strategy"
Samuel Coelho Silva
It’s a myth. Nixon never even tried to appeal to Southern racists
James Eastland, John Sparkman, and John C Stennis never switched parties.
I had thought 1984 was the most lopsided election in American History where Reagan won 525-13
He said that the popular vote margin of 22.6% is the most lopsided election. Reagan’s margin of victory in the popular vote in 1984 was 18.2% which is less than Johnson’s 22.6% popular vote margin of victory.
William Miller was not only a U.S. Representative, but also the previous Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Went from 61.1 percent of the vote to barely winning the new hampshire primary
5:49 *coughs in 1912*
Mr beat for president
jjona 21354 That would be great :)