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On October 7 1964 President Lyndon B Johnsons top aide Walter Jenkins was arrested for disorderly conduct. Soon the news was spreading like wildfire. Meanwhile in Russia the anti Kruschev plotters decided to wait untill November to make their coup. In Britan Prime Minister Home decided to wait untill November to call an election and the date for the Chinese detonation of an atomic bomb was pushed bach to November. Soon both Johnson and his Republican opponent Barry Goldwater were even in the polls thanks to the Jenkins scandal. On election night 1964 Goldwater won by 1 electoral vote with 270 in total a new age in American politics had began. Shortly after his defeat Johnson attempted to pass the voting rights act of 1965. The bill passed in the Senate 74-22 and in the House 333-85 with President Johnson signing it into law on January 18 1965. Two days later Goldwater was sworn in as President.