Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic The 1964 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election.

Tennessee voters chose 11[1] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Goldwater was an opponent of the Tennessee Valley Authority and stated that it "was a big fat sacred New Deal cow".

He received significant criticism for this statement and later wrote that "You would have thought I had just shot Santa Claus" about the response.

Peter O'Donnell, a financial backer of Goldwater's campaign, wrote a memo criticizing Goldwater for "shooting from the hip" and "kicking a sleeping dog".