Nov. 4, 1964 - President Johnson scored an electoral victory of landslide proportions in his native Texas today. In addition to corralling the state's 25 electoral votes, he helped hold a hotly contested Democratic Senate seat, and contributed to the defeat of Texas's two Republican Congressmen.
The President's share of the vote in his contest with Senator Goldwater hovered around 64 per cent as the tallying of more than two and a half million votes from Texas's 254 far-flung counties approached its conclusion tonight.
Senator Ralph W. Yarborough, the controversial liberal opposed by many fellow Democrats, but supported by the President, garnered about 56 per cent of the vote against George Bush, the son of former Senator Prescott Bush of Connecticut.
The electoral whirlwind generated by the President seemingly had its effects in Dallas, where five‐term Representative Bruce Alger, a Republican, behind the vote amassed by former Mayor Earle Cabell; and in west Texas, where Representative Ed Foreman of Odessa was out paced by the Democrats' Richard White, an El Paso lawyer. The Democrats apparently held all the 21 other House seats.
Gov. John B. Connally Jr., a Johnson protege who was wounded during the Kennedy assassination here a year ago, won another term handily. The Democratic sweep left Senator John Tower as Texas's only Republican in a major office. His term expires in 1966.
State pride was running high. There were repeated public references to the supposed fact that today would mark the first election of “a native Texan” to the Presidency. The references overlooked the fact that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Denison, Tex., although he was elected as a resident of New York.
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