WASHINGTON, November 4, 1964 (UPI) --Lyndon Baines Johnson rode a torrent of Democratic and anti-Goldwater votes into the greatest presidential victory in history today - and carried with him an ...

Of all the agonizing Republican reappraisals of the 1964 elections, by far the best documented and most out spoken is that of the Ripon Society, a group of some 80 young G.O.P. intellectuals ...

(Note that Hawaii and Alaska only became states in 1959, while the District of Columbia has only had electoral votes since ...

Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, challenging Americans to build a “Great Society” and winning the election with more than 61 percent of the popular vote. Challenges: ...

After 13 straight years of Conservative government, the party's fortunes had turned by the 1964 election — not least after the resignation of John Profumo, the Minister for War, over lying about ...