n August 1964, presidential adviser McGeorge Bundy wrote Lyndon Johnson a spare but revealing memorandum. The Republicans had just nominated Barry Goldwa- ter in San Francisco, rejecting if
not humiliating the Rockefeller-led, inter- nationalist wing of the party. Bundy sensed a golden opportunity for LBJ to court the "very first team of businessmen, bankers, et al." orphaned politically by Goldwater. And the key to these people, claimed Bundy, was a Wall Street lawyer, banker, and d...