Barry Goldwater

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Congress overrode President Nixon''s veto to enact the War Powers Resolution, requiring the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces and limiting deployments to 60 days without congressional authorization. The House voted 284-135 and the Senate 75-18 to override. The law established a framework for congressional oversight of military action that every subsequent president has challenged.

Congress overrode President Nixon's veto to enact the War Powers Resolution, requiring presidents to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing US forces to hostilities and to obtain authorization within 60 days. Nixon called the law unconstitutional; every president since has contested its application. The resolution was intended to prevent undeclared wars like Vietnam but has never successfully stopped a president from initiating military action.

Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater casts one of the Senate's decisive "no" votes on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on June 19, 1964, citing Titles II and VII as unconstitutional federal overreach. Six of the seven other Republicans who vote against the bill represent Deep South states; Goldwater represents Arizona. His opposition gives the segregationist South a credible vehicle inside the Republican Party for the first time. Goldwater wins his home state and five Deep South states in the November election — Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina — states LBJ carries nowhere else. Political analysts including Kevin Phillips later identify that vote and its electoral result as the founding moment of the Republican "Southern Strategy," a deliberate courtship of white voters alienated by civil rights legislation.