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dollars. From 1965 to 1969 there was no real advancement in those
weekly wages. This occurred at a time when businessmen were reaping
higher profits, the incomes of professionals were rising, and the
media reflected what the government was doing for the poor, and above
all for the black poor.
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16. Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenherg, The Real Majority (New York:
Coward, McCann, and Geohegan Inc., 1970), n. 143. Richard Scammon and
Ben Wattenberg maintain that throughout the 1968 elections the central
issue was not the war, but what they term the "social issue, i.e. the
perceived inequitias arising from the government's social reform
~programs.
17. Doris Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (New York: New
American Library, 1946), p. 295.
18. Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of
Power (New York: The New American Library, 1966), p. 565.
19. Wicker, pp. 35-36. The impact that the overwhelming Goldwater defeat
had upon spokesmen of the right is illustrated by the case of Goldwater's
campaign director who, thereafter, was unable to find suitable
employment.
20. Evans and Novak, p. 133.
21. Kearns, p. 185.
22. Halber;.tam, pp. 490, 494-496. b
23. Kearns, pp. 2C8-211.
24. van an Novak, p. ý66; Kennedy had begun assembling the best-oiled,
most efficient campaign organization of all time a full year before
the 1964 election. Johnson had other wa~s of operating and he paid
slight attenticn to the organizational system that has been characteristic
of the Kennedy political campaign. Even after he had been
nominated at Atlantic City in 1964 Johnson had nct appointed an overall
campaign director. Wicker, p. 68; in 1966-l1%7 Johnson neglected
party organization and he was consequently ill-prepared for the 1968
presidential primaries.
25. WiCker, p. 61.
-i's 26. Kearns, p. 148.
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