Which of the following is true of the presidential election of 1964?
A. The election marked the first time since the Civil War that a Democratic presidential candidate did not carry the states of the Deep South.
B. The election temporarily turned relations between the United States and the Soviet Union into a minor issue in American politics.
C. The election gave Johnson a landslide victory, but it also gave him the most conservative Congress in history.
D. The election featured the most peaceful party conventions in twenty-five years.
Answer: A
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