When the Democratic party tore itself apart over the Vietnam War and other issues in the late 1960s, the winner proved to be the forces of an emerging conservatism led by Richard Nixon and George Wallace. How and why did conservatism emerge so rapidly from the seemingly devastating Goldwater defeat in the election of 1964?

In a speech before the american society of newspaper editors (april 16, 1953), president eisenhower stated: "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. this world in arms is not spending money alone. it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. this is not a way of life at all in any true sense. under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." do you agree or disagree?