For Want of Rain On One Afternoon, 1963-4 Could Have Turned Out Far Differently

Might NC's Terry Sanford Have Become President?

There probably was no way Republicans could have won the 1964 election. The party was deeply divided over civil rights, and Senator Barry Goldwater lost in a landslide. But Democratic President Lyndon Johnson certainly had his vulnerabilities. In the fall of 1963, a team of journalists for Life magazine was preparing an expose on Johnson’s financial she…