1960s Timeline

Mar. 25, 1964 - Senator Barry Goldwater, in the city where Robert McNamara became famous as a car-builder, delivered his most scathing...

Mar. 18, 1964 - Senator Barry Goldwater, castigating President Johnson and calling for victory in South Vietnam, wound up a successful...

Mar. 17, 1964 - Republicans suggested today that much of the Johnson Administration’s planned war on poverty would merely duplicate...

Mar. 13, 1964 - Senator Barry Goldwater suggested today that Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge should report to a joint session of Congress on...

Mar. 11, 1964 - Richard M. Nixon declared in Newark, N.J., tonight that there was no man in this country who could conduct a more...

Mar. 11, 1964 - Senator Barry Goldwater said last night he had “goofed up somewhere” in the New Hampshire primary election. The Arizona...

Mar. 11, 1964 - Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge won a smashing victory last night in the nation’s first Presidential primary of the 1964...

Mar. 9, 1964 - Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York ended his New Hampshire Presidential campaign today on the same note it began on...

Mar. 6, 1964 - Richard M. Nixon said today he was willing to accept the Republican Vice-Presidential nomination again. Mr. Nixon,...

Dec. 8, 1963 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, left himself available today as a potential contender for the...

Dec. 7, 1963 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured in 1952) has asked Henry Cabot Lodge (right), U.S. Ambassador to South...

Oct. 18, 1963 - Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller today opened a crucial phase of his battle for the Republican Presidential nomination,...

Oct. 7, 1963 - Richard M. Nixon charged today that the “civil rights crisis is to a great extent” President Kennedy’s fault. He said the...

Oct. 1, 1963 - Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York (pictured with Mrs. Rockefeller last month in Rome) said today he would not run...

Sept. 29, 1963 - Governor Nelson Rockefeller (R-N.Y.) had to tell the East German Communists today how much money he had in his wallet. A...

Sept. 26, 1963 - In a speech that seemed aimed at such conservative critics as Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), President Kennedy...

Sept. 12, 1963 - President Kennedy dealt lightly at his news conference today with mounting political criticism. But he put Senator Barry...

Aug. 24, 1963 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured this month in Normandy) has told close political associates he intends to...

Aug. 20, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured in 1961) was asked today whether he believed “the radical right” had captured Senator Barry...

Aug. 19, 1963 - Governor Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma (pictured), the lone Republican voice at the Southern Governors Conference, said today...