Know Your Candidates - 1964 Presidential Election Footage

Know Your Candidates - 1964 Presidential Election
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	Catalog #:	426431
	Clip Number:	426431-1
	Orginal Film:	037-085-01
	Timecode:	00:25:36 - 00:31:20
	Location:	United States
	Year Shot:	1964 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	ELECTIONS: Campaigns ELECTIONS: Conventions GOVERNMENT: Democracy GOVERNMENT: United States LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA PERSONALITIES: Goldwater, Barry PERSONALITIES: Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ) POLITICS: Political Party, USA, Democrat POLITICS: Political Party, USA, Republican
	Description:	The 1964 Presidential Election! - A Public Service Feature. As Americans prepare to go to the polls November 3, hopefully more than two-thirds of eligible voters that exercised this precious privilege in 1960 - your Newsreel offers close views of both Candidates and what they stand for. Look. Listen. Barry Goldwater standing at a podium. Republican Convention at Reunion Arena. President Johnson shaking hands with he public. Voting machine. City traffic. Voters casting their ballots. Republican standard bearer Barry Goldwater is seen at mammoth rallies and whistle-stops during tens of thousands of miles that he has traveled since Labor Day to bring the issues of civil rights, control of nuclear weapons and the charges of slackening morality and softness toward Communism. People applauding. Barry Goldwater at the podium, he puts on his horned rimmed glasses as he speaks. Senator Goldwater at Springfield, Illinois. He rubs the nose of Lincoln's bronze head. Senator Goldwater gives his own summations of his qualifications for the highest office in the land. Senator Barry Goldwater, "These are old words to you, but appease an aggressor, try to make friends with him and eventually you will have to go to war with him, unless you're willing to hand over your freedom without a fight and I don't think Americans are. I speak as you speak, for peace not war, when I say that America must take a firm line with Communist leaders until their evil systems ceases to threaten the world and threaten the freedom of man and the peace of the world." As the speech ends the camera focuses on a poster on the roof of a car; 'Goldwater for President'. Other bumper stickers, posters and Goldwater pictures. Goldwater's children & his wife are also shown meeting voters in a campaign notable for family participation by the Candidates. Barry Goldwater Jr.& Mrs Barry Goldwater (Peggy). Mrs. Goldwater (Peggy) shaking hands in a receiving line with her children and other family members. Barry Goldwater walking in the hotel hallway with his Republican supporters. Barry Goldwater standing at the podium and waving to his supporters. Meanwhile, President Lyndon Johnson takes to the campaign trail with the verve of an old campaigner. To the dismay of the Secret Service, he insists on mixing with the crowds. Throngs holding LBJ poster board signs. President Johnson waving, smiling and shaking hands of the public. He has shaken so many hands, he has his own in bandages. Day in and day out he hammers away at what he calls Goldwater's nuclear irresponsibility and his oft-repeated theme is unity and continuity with a Democratic President. The First Lady as well as Luci and Lynda Bird have also hit the campaign circuit. The girls presiding at barbecues. Lucy Johnson at a BBQ. Looks good their making ribs. Lady Bird Johnson with her daughter Linda standing on the back of a campaign train waving to the public. Johnson campaign circuit. Whistle-stopping through Dixie. United Steelworkers of America welcomes President Johnson. MS - President Johnson standing on a raised platform speaking to a crowd of political supporters. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, "A united country, a unified America, submerging pay difference in common purpose will find no limit to its achievement. We have the knowledge. We have the resources. We have the tools. All we need is the courage and the faith and the vision. You know in your heart I'm telling you the truth." President Johnson among the Democratic supporters shaking hands. The 1964 National Democratic Convention was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Inside the Convention Center are throngs of supporters holding up posters, balloons, banners and signs of support. President Johnson on a raised state with his family. Back in Washington waling outside the White House with a crowd of people following him, as they all take part in the afternoon stroll President Johnson is talking and it looks like he is answering questions. The White House.