Original Barry Goldwater 1964 Campaign Briefing Memo for Pennsylvania Tour For Sale

Original Barry Goldwater 1964 Campaign Briefing Memo for Pennsylvania Tour.
It is an internal strategy sheet, not a public flyer. Staff listed who would meet the plane (Craig Truax, Governor William Scranton’s representative, and 1st District candidate Alvin J. Bellow), local color for each stop, and explicit talking points labeled “Stress” and “Forget.”West Chester is flagged as horse country and the nation’s largest mushroom-growing county, with a planned mushroom presentation that staff hoped could be tied to the nuclear-threat issue (“mushroom cloud”). Upper Darby notes a 5-to-1 Republican registration edge, Irish Catholic voters, and fear of nuclear war. Philadelphia is described by ethnic makeup (Italian, Irish, and Negro) and includes a short Young Republican appearance plus a Convention Hall event focused on street violence and law and order.The repeated “Forget: Civil Rights” instruction, paired with directions to talk instead about mob violence, Vietnam, the draft, Social Security, and “responsible government,” is the document’s most revealing feature. A handwritten Goldwater slogan at the top—“The government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away”—and names of Pennsylvania Republicans (Hugh Scott, Bill Scranton, Sen. John McClure) further date and authenticate it.As a primary source it has clear historical value: it shows how a Goldwater advance team tried to localize a national conservative message in a key industrial state just two weeks before Election Day, while steering away from the civil-rights issue that defined much of the 1964 campaign. As a physical artifact it is a typed original with contemporary handwritten annotations,.