F. Clifton White

Goldwater Presidential Campaign Mobilizes Business Coalition and Establishes Conservative Infrastructure

| Importance: 8/10

The 1964 Barry Goldwater presidential campaign galvanizes a grassroots coalition of businesspeople, Southerners, Midwesterners, and libertarians who feel sidelined by the Republican establishment, establishing political infrastructure and strategies that become standard tenets of Republican politics …

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