Before the Storm (40 page)

For Governor,
Walter Reuther

For Lieut.-Governor,
Walter Reuther

For State Senator, Walter Reuther

For Atty.-General, Walter Reuther

For Treasurer, Walter Reuther

For Secretary of State, Walter Reuther

Goldwater gathered his first national following as the archenemy of United Automobile Workers president Walter Reuther, notorious among businessmen for his aggressive attempts to increase labor'spolitical muscle. A dramatic televisedshowdown between Goldwater and Reuther at a Senate hearing over the violentstrike at the Kohler Company, near Sheboygan, Wisconsin, minted Goldwateras a national political star.

Liberal Republican billionaire Nelson A. Rockefeller (right) won an upset victory to become governor of New York, then immediately trained his sights on winning an upset victory over Richard Nixon for the 1960 Republican nomination. During the campaign, the right and left wings of the party warred for Richard Nixon's soul over the issue of civil rights. Goldwater and Nixon (below) appeared in Phoenix after Goldwater had warned the presidential candidateto pay more attention to a conservative upsurge.

Young Americans for Freedom, inspired by the antiestablishment brio of William F. Buckley (above) and his magazine
National Review
, demolished stereotypes about the forbidding stodgi- ness of conservatives, filling Madison Square Garden within a year and a half of the organization'sfounding ...

... even as another conservative group, the John Birch Society, formed by Robert Welch, prompted press accounts depicting it as the front for a possibleAmerican fascist groundswell.

Throughout 1961, amid anxieties over the Bay of Pigs and Berlin crises, a string of scares from the right haunted the Kennedy Administration. Dr. Fred Schwarz, a barnstorming anticommunistlecturer from Australia, grew increasingly adept at winning the support of celebrities like Pat Boone, Ronald Reagan, and
Life
publisher C. D. Jackson for rallies, such as this one in Los Angeles, warning of a Communist takeover of the United States (right and below).