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Here's the rough idea:
PoD #1 -- 1964 -- Barry Goldwater comes out, with qualifications*, in favor of the Civil Rights Bill, vehemently calling out violence against people in the Civil Rights Movement in the process; he does not run for President this year, opting for another term in the Senate (similar ideas discussed here)
PoD #2 -- 1965 -- The assassins targeting Malcom X are arrested before they can shoot their target; Malik El-Shabazz lives at least another four years (and as many as forty) (similar ideas discussed here)
So what are the effects of these two individually, as well as happening in the same TL? I can see Goldwater getting elected President in 1968 -- does that work, and if so, how does he govern? How is the Civil Rights Movement changed -- esp if Martin Luther King, Jr is still killed as OTL, but Malcom is still alive? Could a more respectable Conservatism come out of all this? What else am I forgetting?
*of the "this is not a perfect bill, but something must be done badly enough that I'll vote for it, blemishes and all" kind of deal