Before the Storm by Rick Perlstein

Author:Rick Perlstein
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Nation Books

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GOLDEN STATE

California had just surpassed New York as the most populous state in the union. Its primary was like all the other ones, only more so. Goldwater didn’t have to win there to clinch enough delegates to put him over the top. He did have to win there if he wanted credibility as a man who could win elections, not just snatch conventions. Rockefeller had to win California or he would die. It was holy war—to decide, as one hot-headed Goldwater pamphleteer put it, “whether Constitutional government is to be restored or if our country is going to continue to go further to the Left towards a Communist-tainted Nazi-Fascist collectivism and chaos.” Rockefeller’s staff would have had to edit only a few words to make that their own credo. “Even I have been shocked by the spending in this campaign. I’ve never seen anything like it in American politics,” Clif White told a reporter. “Why, Rockefeller”—and, he should have added, Goldwater too—“is making Kennedy look like a piker.”

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