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And there was certainly a lot of advertisement suggesting the thermal nuclear war could well resolve look at the election though
当时很多的宣传广告都在暗示发动核战争能够给冷战画上句号，来看看这次选举吧
It's a total reversal, what happened
选情发生了大逆转，发生了什么
Goldwater from Arizona was not really a segregationist, but he was an ardent federalist
来自亚利桑那州的戈德华特不是一个真正意义上的隔离主义者，他是一名狂热的联邦主义者
He's actually going back to the states' rights program with the Democratic Party
事实上他正致力于推动州权计划，虽然州权在过去与民主党的关系更为密切
Now he's taking it as a Republican platform
但他现在把它作为共和党的纲领
and is basically saying that's up to the states to determine the civil rights issue, it's not a federal issue
并且提出应该由各个州来决定有关公民权利的事宜，而不是由联邦政府处理
so you see the far south which had been the Democratic stronghold abandoning the Democratic Party going for Goldwater
因而曾经作为民主党根据地的最南部地区，这回抛弃了民主党转而支持戈德华特
Almost we should think this was really the only issue in these areas blacks weren't voting whites voting, virtually entirely in these states
常常一提到南方的大选我们脑海中的印象就是那里只有白人选民，黑人无权投票，南方州几乎都是如此
but a huge huge blowout election
但这是场压倒性取胜的选举

you can see again, you go up into the Northeast hardly a county going for Goldwater, upper Mid-west hardly any counties
你们会再次发现在东北部没什么县是支持戈德华特的，中西部地区的北部县也是如此
just the far south and some of the Great Plains big parts of Utah and Idaho, a little bit in Montana as well and Arizona
只有最南部和大平原的一些县，犹他州和爱达荷州的大片地区，蒙塔纳州和亚利桑那州的少数地区支持他
one of the biggest blowout elections that we've had
这是到此为止压倒性最为明显的大选之一了
Let me just really quickly get this up to the next election
我们抓紧时间来讲下一届选举
Maybe I'll start with the following election
现在我开始介绍下一届大选
1968 Vietnam War in full spate
1968年，突如其来的越南战争
President Johnson declined to run
总统约翰逊表示不参加竞选
His vice president Hubert Humphrey well-known of his civil rights stalwart
由他的副总统，休伯特汉弗莱一个扞卫公民权利的坚定分子
running against Richard Nixon again, who had been defeated by Kennedy
来对阵理查德，尼克松，尼克松曾败给肯尼迪

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这一集大致讲述了1920－1972年总统大选的历史与过程，主要以一战、1929大萧条、二战、美苏冷战为历史背景，穿插了西奥多罗斯福，富兰克林罗斯福，杜鲁门，肯尼迪等几位著名美国总统的竞选和执政经历。