[Rarebooks] FS: White House Photograph of Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater, INSCRIBED by LBJ to Goldwater "from his favorite target"

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JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines. *SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH Inscribed to Barry Goldwater. 
*[Washington, DC], [@1964-1966]. Official oversized (14" x 11") White 
House photograph of Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater walking down a 
hall with Johnson's hand on Goldwater's back and looking behind him at 
an open door where a few men are gathered. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the 
President on the blank margin below the image: "To Barry Goldwater/from 
his favorite target - Lyndon B. Johnson." Goldwater, a five-term senator 
from Arizona, lost the race for president to Johnson in 1964. Known as 
"Mr. Conservative," he is the politician most often credited for 
sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement 
in the 1960s and also had a substantial impact on the libertarian 
movement. He returned to the U.S. Senate in 1969 and served until 1987, 
succeeded byJohn McCain. In 1974, as an elder statesman of the party, 
Goldwater forced the resignation of Richard Nixon when the evidence of 
cover-up became overwhelming and impeachment was imminent. By the 1980s, 
the increasing influence of the Christian right on the Republican Party 
so conflicted with Goldwater's libertarian views that he became a vocal 
opponent of the religious right on issues such as abortion, gay rights, 
and the role of religion in public life. Fine and exceptional.    $25,000.00

After painting his opponent as a right-wing legislator who wanted to 
abolish the social welfare programs created in the 1930s (such as Social 
Security), Johnson easily won the Presidency over Goldwater in 1964, 
carrying 44 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Goldwater, 
who had opposee the Civil Rights Act of 1964 based on his view that the 
act was an intrusion of the federal government into the affairs of 
states, won his home state of Arizona and five states of the Deep South, 
the first Republican to win the electoral votes of those states since 
Reconstruction. Johnson won 61.1% of the national popular vote, which 
remains the highest popular-vote percentage won by a U.S. presidential 
candidate since 1820. In 1965 Johnson instituted three new social 
welfare programs: Medicare, Medicaid, and the War on Poverty.


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