[Rarebooks] FS: Exceptional SIGNED Photograph Lyndon Johnson to Barry Goldwater

[Charles Agvent]

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 by John 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.

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 opposed 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. Fine  
(#015752)        $25,000.00

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