The race to calumniate Barry Goldwater was on. To the New York Times’s editorialists, Goldwater had reduced “a once great party to the status of an ugly, angry, frustrated faction.” Columnist C. L. Sulzberger said that if Goldwater were elected “there may not be a day after tomorrow.” Governor Edmund Brown of California said, “The stench of fascism is in the air.” Asked how he would run his local campaigns with Goldwater heading up the ticket, a Chicago Republican leader replied, “I’ll jump off that bridge when I come to it.” Senator William Fulbright stung his colleague on the Senate floor in
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