On November 3, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson won a landslide victory over Republican Barry Goldwater in that year’s Presidential election. His victory came with 61 per cent of the popular vote across America, with Goldwater only securing the support of 39 per cent of the voting American public.
A few days after his victory, LBJ took a congratulatory call from Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Thanks to the hard-working staff of the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, we can listen to Mike and Lyndon here.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson/caption
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.