Lost the 1964 presidential election in a landslide because his views were seen as too extreme.

Barry Goldwater was an extreme conservative. He criticized President Johnson's actions in Vietnam, saying Johnson "was gathering votes at home while the rest of the world burned". He ran against Johnson and lost...badly.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.