On May 7, 12:53 pm, wrote:
On May 7, 1:47 pm, samsloan wrote:

It seems that you are right, thank you.

Goldwater won the nomination on July 15, 1964. The "Extremism" speech
came the next day on July 16.

Sam Sloan

You're welcome. Glad to see you open to correction on something.

This certainly explains why I found nothing noteworthy in the speech.

The "Extremism" speech is one of the most famous and remembered
speeches in political history, right below the Gettysburg Address and
the "Day that shall live in Infamy" speech. I cannot think of any
others.

It was also the biggest blunder. Goldwater was forever branded as an
extremist. He was never able to shake that off.

It comes up today, with videos of the little girl watching an atomic
bomb of off in her minds eye, which was the Johnson Election Campaign
ad that was the counter to the extremist views of Goldwater.

This explains why Goldwater got wiped out in the election whereas
Nixon and Reagan who had similar views got elected.

Sam Sloan