European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I m no baby kissing Back slapping Blintzes eating politician by Walter r. Wears associated press Barry Goldwater s was the Las omhol7 Els. Now a slate of world aviation. The senator lie in although nobody Ever admitted Berry oot Dwater campaigning in 1964 Seldom inhibited by Tny my Prospect of winning the who Houlf. That. He also landed in when he arrived at Dulles Airport near Washington after the election. He brought in Down hard and smiled knowingly when a reporter told him the third Bounce Landing was a Nice one although the first had Boon rather exciting. Ii was at least that exciting when the Goldwater charter performed the Bristol flyby Early in the Campaign. The 727 took of Fromari cities Airport near Bristol tenn., and levelled Olf in route to Cleveland. Suddenly the plane turned sharply and Dove at High Speed. Grown pilots and there were a lot in the Goldwater entourage paled. Goldwater. Up front went into the cockpit and came Back smiling. The plane kept diving toward the ground then suddenly levelled of and blazed Down the runway Al control lower level a Pilot s prank. Thai was to separate the men from the boys Goldwater said. Consistency was not a Hobgoblin of the Goldwater Campaign one morning in Laconia . During the primary Campaign Goldwater said he would be inclined to withdraw from the United nations if communist China were seated. One Slop later he said the United states Musl stay in he United nations. Another Slop and he said that it the Mainland chinese supplanted the nationalists it would blow . Participation to pieces. Then that evening i be never said let s get out of the . I Don t know How that Rumor Ever got  Al an american legion convention in Dallas Goldwater likened the mow Yolk times to inv Celia. Outside he challed with a group of reporters and took pains to Tell Charles Mohr the times reporter who covered his Campaign that it was t personal. I did l mean you. Charlie i meant them he said Goldwater s partisans despised reporters particularly Eastern reporters. A reporter for the san Diego Union arranged for two sets of press badges. One read Eastern Liberal  the other read Western tory  the Safe course was to grab one of each. The Vietnam War was taking shape during 1964 the purported attack on . Vessels in the Gull of Tonkin came in August after Goldwater had been nominated. Long before that happened Goldwater warned that Vietnam had the makings of Trie Long agonizing conflict it became. In an unlikely setting amid acres of blossoming Pear Orchards in Northern California that Spring Gok water said thai Vietnam could become a far More serious conflict than Korea. He said president Lyndon b. Johnson should teb the Nalion of the peril and of his plans Loi the future. Al thai time . Involvement was limited to a d and advisers combat forces came later. Still grappling with the Vietnam Issue that fall. Goldwater announced that if elected he would ask former president Dwight d. Eisenhower to go to South Vietnam and recommend future policy. It was an ironic Echo of Eisenhower s own Promise in 1952, that if elected he would go to Korea. The problem was that nobody bothered to Tell Eisenhower what Goldwater was about to propose. Towwater never liked Johnson and in Only heightened his frustration Al the democratic president s landslide Lead in polls borne out by the election. Besides the democratic president Kepi Mousetrap Ping the Republican nominee. Goldwater had voted against the civil rights act of 1964, that landmark Taw and the threat of a White backlash were backdrop realities during the Campaign. The senator said he did l want hem to become divisive issues. A reporter asked whether tie had talked with Johnson about that concern. Goldwater had to but he would Johnson grabbed that opening the instant he teamed of in. To said he d meet with Goldwater any time. They met a the White House on Johnson s Turi and Johnson s terms. Johnson s people then crafted a join statement which said in effect that the president would continue to take the High Road on civil rights and the Republican nominee had finally agreed nol to mate an Issue of in. On election eve. Goldwater went North to his Good Luck town Fredonia ariz., on the Utah Border in Indian country. He d wound up his Senate campaigns there and in would be the last Stop on his presidential Campaign too. One reporter made it his Mission to record Lor posterity the last words spoke in the Campaign. They were not memorable. They were and if there Are any paiute out there i want to thank you  in 1964, the United Stales had seen three presidents Eisenhower Kennedy and Johnson hold office within four years. The voters Wien t about la install a fourth even had there been a Republican nominee Wilh wider support than Goldwater Lound. Goldwater knew the Odds when he hobbled into the Campaign his loot in a cast after Bone Spur surgery. On election night 1964, at he Camel Back inn Goldwater s Start set up a giant blackboard to record the popular and electoral vote state by state. From the Lime the first Voles were counted the Johnson landslide was evident. Nobody bothered to write a number on Iho big blackboard. Chalk never touched it. Ail night Long. Page 16 the stars and stripes sunday september 11,1988