Savage Lovecast Episode 832
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast at savage.love. |
| 0:05.0 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:14.4 | while there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:22.9 | In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson was running against Barry Goldwater for president. Johnson, |
| 0:29.7 | LBJ was president at the time. He was JFK's vice president. He became president in 1963, |
| 0:36.6 | after JFK was assassinated by, I think, Oliver Stone. |
| 0:41.3 | Anyway, Goldwater was the GOP nominee. He was a senator from Arizona. And Arizona was just as right wing then as it is now. |
| 0:50.5 | More right wing, arguably back then. John Birchers then, forced birthers now, stop the commies then, stop the steel now. |
| 0:58.0 | But it was a long time ago before most of you were born. Hell, it was before I was born, mostly. |
| 1:04.2 | Most of the 1964 presidential campaign happened before I was born. I was four weeks old in November of 1964 when Johnson crushed |
| 1:13.9 | Goldwater in a fucking landslide. Goldwater was a conservative and a military hawk and he didn't |
| 1:22.0 | think we were dropping enough bombs on Vietnam in 1964. Here's an unfun fact. The United States was dropping plenty of bombs on Vietnam |
| 1:31.0 | in 1964. We would ultimately drop eight million tons of bombs on Vietnam before that war ended in |
| 1:37.9 | 1973, twice as many bombs as were dropped during the entire Second World War by everybody, not just the U.S., |
| 1:46.7 | by the United States, Japan, Germany, Italy, the UK, the Soviet Union. |
| 1:52.0 | But in 1964, Goldwater didn't think we were dropping enough bombs on Vietnam or the right |
| 1:58.7 | kind of bombs. |
| 1:59.9 | He wanted us to use nukes. |
| 2:03.0 | That was just one of the things wrong with Goldwater. |
| 2:05.1 | He thought LBJ should nuke Vietnam, |
| 2:07.7 | and he promised if elected to nuke Vietnam. |
| 2:11.4 | Hell, Goldwater wanted field commanders in Vietnam |
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