WASHINGTON, November 4, 1964 (UPI) --Lyndon Baines Johnson rode a torrent of Democratic and anti-Goldwater votes into the greatest presidential victory in history today - and carried with him an ...

(Note that Hawaii and Alaska only became states in 1959, while the District of Columbia has only had electoral votes since ...

Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, challenging Americans to build a “Great Society” and winning the election with more than 61 percent of the popular vote. Challenges: ...

After 13 straight years of Conservative government, the party's fortunes had turned by the 1964 election — not least after the resignation of John Profumo, the Minister for War, over lying about ...