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GOLDWATER VOTES “No, No, a Thousand Times No!”
“By our votes you can judge us, not by our talking,” 'Sen. Goldwater, Monterey, California,
5-26-64; Chicago Tribune 5-27-64) \ ,
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Votes against the best interests of the
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American People
AGAINST—Tax Cuts (311|55,'‘915162, 217164).
AGAINST —Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (9124163)
AGAINST —Increased Hospital Construction (717153)
AGAINST—PubIic Works (918159, 1011162, 5|28!62)
AGAlNST—National Wilderness Preservation System (9 6161, 419163)
AGAINST—Anti-Poverty Act (7;2&!64)
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Business
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AGAINST —‘Easing tax burden for small business men (7115153,
3127157)
AGAlNST—Development of .atomic reactors for electric power
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The Elderly
AGAlNST—lncreasing payments to aged and blind (5128158)
' AGAlNST—‘Providing adequate hospital care for the aged (8123(60,
' 7117162,' 9264)
Natural Resources
AGAINST—TVA finding (81*9157)
AGAINST —Development of atomic reactors for electric power
(7112156)
AGAlNST—Authorizinz New York State development of Niagara
I River power (5| 16(56)
AGAINST —Authorization of flood control projects (412158, 6117(60)
AGAINST —Wilderness; Preservation System (419163)
The Underprivileged
AGAINST—War on
AGAINST—PubIic Housing (6f7|55, 215159, 8118159, 914159, 6 12161)
AGAINST— Creating a “domestic Peace Corps” to work in city and
, .. slum areas (8114163)
Georgia Democrats who threaten to leave the Party and support
Barry Goldwater for the Presidency are using as their excuse that
the Arizona Senator voted against the civil rights bill- That’s the only
thing they are thinking about —the only issue in the campaign, as they
see it. •
Well, us Johnson folks are happy to make Goldwater’s so-called
segregation ideas an issue. Let’s look at the RECORD:
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GOLDWATER
—ls a member of the NAACP.
js a founding member of the integrationist Urban League.
—Contributed S4OO to finance an integration school suit in Ariz
ona.
-Co-sponsored with Senators Javits and Keating a bill applying
FEPC restrictions to federal contracts (SB 942).
__Was co-sponsor With 37 other Republican Senators of the 1957
Civil Rights Bill (SB 83).
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Who’s an Integrationist?
• ' reprinted from the Austell (Ga.) Enterprise ’
DONALSONVILLE (GA. 31745) NEWS THURSDAY, OCT. 29, 1964
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Fanners
AGAINST —90% supndtts On basic crops (4127'54,.,8110154, 3j8[56)
AGAINST —Supporting dairy products at 85% ; of parity instead of
-‘T* ■T5‘% (4127154) . *.
AGAlNST—Emergency:,.Feed Grains Program (3122161)
AGAINST —Extending voluntary feed grains program (5i]16|63)
AGAINST —Agricultural conservation programs (5125162, 8122162,
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AGAINST—Food for. Peace extension (5'25162)
AGAlNST—lncreasing cbrn “set aside” and establishing wheat and
j y cotton “set asides” (3(19'156) •
AGAINST —Extending' Agriculture Trade Development and. Assist
ms' 1 ance Act (917159) ' .' / 1
AGAINST —Maintaining-dual parity provision (3115156)
AGAINST—9O% support of wheat (3115156) <■/(_•
AGAINST —Insuring adequate prices for wheat and cotton producers
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Labor
AGAlNiST—Helping retrain workers who have lost 'their jobs, to auto
mation (8|28|61, 9|6|63),.\ ; ,
AGAINST—Aiding areas which suffer chronic unemployment (5113158
3123159, 3115161, 6126163)
AGAlNST—Boosting, she wage (5129156, 8118160, 4120161)
AGAlNST—Establiming nationwide standards for amount and dura
\ tion of unemployment compensation
(7113154)
AGAINST—Easing trade restrictions and tariffs to help expand our
markets (9119162)
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Youth
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AGAlNST—Providing training and employment of out-of-school, out
work youngsters (4116163) , %
AGAINST—-Creating a Youth Conservation Corps (8113159)
AGAINST—Aiding in the construction of medical, dental and pro
fessional schools (9112163)
AGAlNST—Providing loans to scholarship students in medicine and
related fields (9|12163)
AGAlNST—‘Providing scholarships and loans ,(d. x .thousands
’ more needy students to ; attehd College each
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AGAlNST—lncreasing teachers’ salaries (2(4160;
AGAlNST—Providing funds to aid in school constuuctipn- (24 60,
AGAlNST—lncreasing school lunch program, funds (612154)
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—Was co-sponsor of legislation to add FEPC provisions covering
employers and labor under the National Labor Relations Act (SB
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—Criticized Bobby Kennedy for not pushing hard endugh on
prosecution of civil rights voting cases in the South.
—Supported the civ# rights law of 1960. , , u . .. ..
—Said, . I thinkste Attorney-General should have the power
to use a very tightly-drwn law AIMED LIKE A RIFLE at the pre
cise problem in a school districtyes, I would use it/(the law) if
elected,” Congressional Quarterly interview Aug. 28, 1963.
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—Said in a Sen#3 speech (Congressional Record? ‘1 am un
alterably opposed to diffr/piination or segregation on,,tjie basis of
race, color or pn any other basis; nqf only, myj words, but
more importantly, my . actions through the yeans have repeatedly
demonstrated the; smcegty of my feelings in this regard I realize
fully that the federal Government has a responsibilityjjfethe field of
civil rights. I supposed the civil rights bills where' were Wacted in
1967 and 1960.” - r , > , .
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