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“They Can’t Argue with Themselves”

 

Photo credit: Photo credit: O.J. Rapp

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President Johnson and Secretary of Labor W. Willard Bill Wirtz discussed a rhetorical strategy for the last two months of the presidential campaign. Johnson advised Wirtz to do all the speaking you can but to avoid arguing with Republican candidate Senator Barry M. Goldwater Sr. of Arizona and his running mate, Representative William E. Miller of New York. 

 

Date:
September 9, 1964
Topic:
Election of 1964
Location
Oval Office
Conversation
WH6409-08-5542

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