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Crichton strongly supported the [[Barry Goldwater]] presidential candidacy: "In my opinion Goldwater would have made a great president. He would either have withdrawn our presence in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] or gone whole hog to win it, instead of the piecemeal strategy of the Johnson administration that so hampered our military leaders as they in effect were not allowed to win the Vietnam conflict."<ref>Crichton, p. 48.</ref>
Crichton strongly supported the [[Barry Goldwater]] presidential candidacy: "In my opinion Goldwater would have made a great president. He would either have withdrawn our presence in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] or gone whole hog to win it, instead of the piecemeal strategy of the Johnson administration that so hampered our military leaders as they in effect were not allowed to win the Vietnam conflict."<ref>Crichton, p. 48.</ref>
Crichton wrote a book, ''The Republican-Democrat Political Campaigns in Texas in 1964,'' which among other topics discusses the split at the 1964 convention between the partisans of Goldwater and [[New York]] Governor [[Nelson A. Rockefeller]] and the last-minute attempt by William Warren Scranton (1917-2013) of [[Pennsylvania]] to bridge the differences. Crichton and Bush supported the eventual nominee, Goldwater, the U.S. senator from [[Arizona]] who lost Texas by a wide margin to native son Lyndon Johnson.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.flipkart.com/book/republican-democrat-political-campaigns-jack/1418425745|title=The Republican-Democrat Political Campaigns: In Texas in 1964|publisher=flipkart.com|accessdate=April 9, 2010}}</ref> Crichton went to a summer meeting in Hershey, Pennsylvania, having flown on the private jet of [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], then the [[Moderate Republican]] gubernatorial nominee against [[Orval E. Faubus]] in [[Arkansas]].<ref>Crichton, p. 27.</ref>
===Election results===
===Election results===