Barry Goldwater arouses both fervour and fear, 1964

Accepting the presidential nomination, the Arizona senator tells the Republican National Convention that Americans have been betrayed

We want Barry! We want Barry!' cheered the crowd as Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater entered the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco. The band blared the crusaders' song of American politics, Glory Glory Hallelujah', writes Theodore H White in the Observer Magazine on 20 September 1964, with Goldwater's 89-year-old mother on the cover.

In his speech accepting the presidential nomination, the far-right Arizona senator, with his deep tan and silvery white hair', aroused both fervour and fear... Then he swung into his theme: The Good Lord raised this mighty republic, not to stagnate in the swamplands of collectivism, not to cringe before the bully of Communism."'