July 16, 1964 | Nixon Remarks at the Republican Convention [clip]

July 16, 1964 - Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon called tonight for all Republicans to unite behind the Goldwater-Miller ticket and sweep to victory in November.
Votes for President Johnson, Nixon warned at the GOP National Convention in San Francisco, will mean votes for one of the biggest spending sprees and “because of his refusal to repudiate Bobby Baker, the green light for influence peddling and massive payoffs in Washington.”
Introducing Sen. Barry Goldwater for the Senator’s speech accepting the Presidential nomination, Nixon said Goldwater “is the man who earned and proudly carries the title ‘Mr. Conservative,’ by the action of this convention is ‘Mr. Republican,’ and after November will be ‘Mr. President.’”
“I hear the theme song Mr. Johnson has selected is ‘Happy Days Are Here Again,” said Nixon. “But when Barry Goldwater gets through with him, it will be ‘Home on the Range.’”
The Cow Palace throngs burst into laughter and applause.

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