Accepting the presidential nomination, the Arizona senator tells the Republican National Convention that Americans have been betrayed<\/p>\n
\u2018We want Barry! We want Barry!\u2019 cheered the crowd as Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater entered the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco. \u2018The band blared the crusaders\u2019 song of American politics, Glory Glory Hallelujah\u2019, writes Theodore H White in the Observer Magazine<\/em> on 20 September 1964, with Goldwater\u2019s 89-year-old mother on the cover.<\/p>\n In his speech accepting the presidential nomination, the far-right Arizona senator, with his deep tan and \u2018silvery white hair\u2019, aroused both \u2018fervour and fear\u2026 Then he swung into his theme: \u201cThe Good Lord raised this mighty republic, not to stagnate in the swamplands of collectivism, not to cringe before the bully of Communism.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Accepting the presidential nomination, the Arizona senator tells the Republican National Convention that Americans have been betrayed \u2018We want Barry! We want Barry!\u2019 cheered the crowd as Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater entered the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco. \u2018The band blared the crusaders\u2019 song of American politics, Glory Glory Hallelujah\u2019, writes Theodore … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}