Editing Barry Goldwater (section)

==={{Anchor|Republican Primary}} Republican primary===
{{See also|Barry Goldwater 1964 presidential campaign|1964 Republican Party presidential primaries}}
[[File:1964RepublicanPresidentialPrimaries.svg|thumb|300px|Republican primaries results by state
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{{legend|#423121|[[John W. Byrnes]]}}
{{legend|#a59400|Barry Goldwater}}
{{legend|#73638c|[[Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.]]}}
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{{legend|#668c63|[[James A. Rhodes]]}}
{{legend|#5d73e5|[[Nelson Rockefeller]]}}
{{legend|#c67742|[[William W. Scranton]]}}
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In South Dakota and Florida, Goldwater finished second to "unpledged delegates", but he finished before all other candidates]]

Goldwater was grief-stricken{{Sfn | Goldwater | 1980 | p = 161 | ps =: "When that assassin's bullet ended the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, it was for me a great personal loss."}} by the [[John F. Kennedy assassination|assassination of Kennedy]] and was greatly disappointed that his opponent in 1964 would not be Kennedy but instead his vice president, former Senate Majority Leader [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] of Texas.<ref name="test">{{citation | url = http://www.mrconservativegoldwaterongoldwater.com/ | title = Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater | publisher = HBO | type = documentary film| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140407105013/http://www.mrconservativegoldwaterongoldwater.com/ | archive-date = April 7, 2014 }}</ref> Goldwater disliked Johnson, later telling columnist John Kolbe that Johnson had "used every dirty trick in the bag."<ref>Iverson, Peter (1997) ''[https://archive.org/details/barrygoldwaterna0000iver/page/118/mode/2up?q=%22used+every+dirty+trick+in+the+bag%22 Barry Goldwater : Native Arizonan].'' Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. p.&nbsp;118. {{ISBN|0806129581}}.</ref>

At the time of Goldwater's presidential candidacy, the Republican Party was split between its conservative wing (based in the West and South) and moderate/liberal wing, sometimes called [[Rockefeller Republican]]s (based in the Northeast and Midwest). Goldwater alarmed even some of his fellow partisans with his brand of staunch [[Fiscal conservatives|fiscal conservatism]] and militant [[anti-communism]]. He was viewed by many moderate and liberal Republicans as being too far on the right wing of the political spectrum to appeal to the mainstream majority necessary to win a national election. As a result, moderate and liberal Republicans recruited a series of opponents, including New York Governor [[Nelson Rockefeller]], [[Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.]], of [[Massachusetts]] and [[Pennsylvania]] Governor [[William Scranton]], to challenge him. Goldwater received solid backing from most of the few Southern Republicans then in politics. A young [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] lawyer, [[John Grenier]], secured commitments from 271 of 279 Southern convention delegates to back Goldwater. Grenier would serve as executive director of the national GOP during the Goldwater campaign, the number two position to party chairman [[Dean Burch]] of Arizona. Goldwater fought and won a multi-candidate race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination.