Jeff Roche
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So here's this organization.
It's available to you if you want to become active in electoral politics.
And then there's a couple of really important organizations.
elections in Texas in the early 1960s.
One is the 1960s senatorial election, where Lyndon Johnson had convinced the Texas legislature to allow him to run for United States Senate and the vice presidency, because he was up for re-election in 1960.
And in case he and Kennedy lost that election,
He wanted to make sure he didn't lose his Senate seat.
So he runs for both offices simultaneously.
And the Republican Party had recruited a guy named John Tower who would, you know, go on to become a long-serving senator from Texas.
And there's a new kind of energy behind the Republican Party that's being fueled by sort of right-wing growth.
And they get behind John Tower in 1960, and he does very well.
Johnson crushes him, of course.
But then Johnson wins the vice presidency, so there's a special election.
to replace Johnson in the U.S.
Senate.
And the right-wing conservatives in Texas and a growing, powerful Republican Party throw everything into this election.
And it really translates the sort of energy behind this anti-communist political movement into electoral politics.
And Tower wins.
And then that's in 61.
And three years later, Bear Goldwater runs for president.
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