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Barry Goldwater had a friendship with John F. Kennedy and looked forward to running against him in 1964. Following his assassination, Goldwater removed himself from from the Republican field, "saying he no longer had the stomach for a campaign." However, pressure from his colleagues led him to run against Johnson. [1] Goldwater went on to win the nomination against Nelson Rockefeller, who was still overcoming the scandal of his divorce, and nominated William Miller as vice president; a man who Goldwater said drove Johnson nuts, even though LBJ would have had no idea who Miller was since he was an unknown local politician. Goldwater was easily trounced in 1964 in one of the greatest landslide's in American history.
What if Goldwater remained without the stomach to campaign and stayed out of the 1964 election?