This plastic bank is just one of the many 1964 presidential campaign novelties that were produced in pairs, one for Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee, and one for President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Democratic candidate. Johnson, who ascended to the presidency after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, easily defeated Goldwater, a senator from Arizona.
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