With Love--and Haste

"As the campaign develops," said the New York Times in an editorial that was published the morning after President Johnson's nomination in Atlantic City, "the points of difference between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Goldwater will become increasingly apparent." But the Times couldn't wait for developments. With uncharacteristic haste, it cast its vote for Lyndon Baines Johnson even before the 1964 presidential campaign had begun.

The differences between the two candidates, said the Times, which has been lamenting Barry Goldwater's candidacy as a blow to national prestige, "are clear enough already. In our opinion, they point to an inescapably logical conclusion: the necessity of electing Lyndon Johnson as President of the United States and of administering a decisive and definitive defeat to the voices of the past."

A similar stance came from Pundit Walter Lippmann, who has previously characterized Goldwater's policies as "insanity." Wrote Lippmann last week: "Sen. Goldwater has certainly achieved what he said he was trying to achieve --namely, that there should be a choice and not an echo. In this election there is a clear choice. It is between Goldwater and Miller on the one hand and Johnson and Humphrey on the other hand. Some choice."

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