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Where Goldwater said, among other things, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice"... At one point during the convention a huge banner reading "Nixon's the One" was unfurled from the upper tier of the Dallas Convention Center, and was roundly booed and soon torn down. Nixon, you see, was too liberal!! This group felt so strongly that LBJ had sold out Texas and the south in the Civil Rights Act that they were willing to run as far to the right as they could to try to regain States' Rights, and keep the "colored" in their place. I knew at that moment that Texas, Democratic for as long as I could remember, was leading the Republican Party in a new direction.
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