Sept. 7, 1964 | LBJ Speech in Detroit

Sept. 7, 1964 - President Johnson today sharply challenged Senator Goldwater’s proposal that small tactical nuclear arms be considered “conventional nuclear weapons,” of which NATO should have its “own stock.”
Firmly insisting that the entire atomic stockpile remain under Presidential control, Johnson said: “There is no such thing as a conventional nuclear weapon.”
The President’s well-applauded remarks were made before tens of thousands at a giant AFL-CIO Labor Day rally in Detroit’s Cadillac Square, where former President Harry Truman and the late President John F. Kennedy both began successful Presidential campaigns on the same holiday.