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And Nixon was so sweet to George Romney, who did give us 12 years of tax returns .
Goldwater was very different on economic policies. He would be considered a Libertarian today, but he was not an anarcho-capitalist, as so many Libertarians are now. He believed in Social Security, and the safety net. He was almost knocked out of the running in 1964. William Scranton, a Senator from Pennsylvania, tried to get George Romney to run and take the nomination away from Goldwater. Romney refused. Nelson Rockefeller also did some nasty things, such as starting a whispering campaign against Goldwater just before the convention started. This is why Goldwater lost to Johnson in 1964. The "Daisy" commercial, claiming that Goldwater would bring nuclear devastation to America, was started by pissed off Republicans after he won the nomination, and of course, the Democrats played that piece over and over. Understand that Republicans in the Northeast at that time were mostly to the left of center, so they quietly supported Johnson. Goldwater got even, though, by turning Ronald Reagan from a Democrat into a Republican, and the rest is history. LOL.