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| | The Man Behind the Movement |
 | | Brief." Doyle, Dane, and Bernbach (DDB), the ad agency that created "Daisy," had originally planned a series of ads lionizing Johnson as the new Lincoln for his just-passed Civil Rights Act, but by the time the fall campaign began, civil rights had become a liability for LBJ. |
 | | As Rick Perlstein, born in 1969, shows in his imaginative and engaging history of the Goldwater Right, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, a good many of the 27 million Americans who voted for Goldwater did so because they were against civil rights for fls. |
 | | The "Daisy" issue long blinded many of us who scoffed at Barry at the time—"stupid to a degree that is incredible," is how one British newspaper characterized him—to the enduring significance of the 1964 presidential campaign: that Barry Goldwater, not Lyndon Johnson, spoke to the future of American politics. |
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