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Democrats, Barry charged, "are driving and confusing you with the basic dishonesty that permeates so much political campaigning. I speak of peace. Your interim President tells you I want to start a war, which is ridiculous, and you know it, and he knows it. I speak of strengthening the social security system, and your interim President tells you I want to destroy it, which is ridiculous, and he knows it, and you know it." A Fourth World War? In Tennessee, Goldwater cried: "During the past few days, Lyndon Johnson frankly has told the American people that he won't be satisfied with just an election—he wants to be crowned. He has asked for a mandate. He wants total trust, total love, total power over your total lives. Somebody, and it's got to be you, should remind Lyndon Johnson just where he lives. This is America. This is not some mythical kingdom conjured up for him to play with." In Cleveland, Goldwater reiterated his position against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. "No person," he said, "whether government official or private citizen, should violate the rights of some in order to further the rights of others. We are being asked to destroy the rights of some under the false banner of promoting the 'civil rights' of others." At week's end Goldwater wended his way West, turned his guns on the Johnson Administration's handling of foreign policy, which, he said, has left "our great alliances in shambles" while "American prestige has been sinking slowly out of sight." Johnson, he charged, "worries more about the votes he's going to get than the boys we lose in Viet Nam." To a Cheyenne, Wyo., crowd Goldwater declared: "I believe that unless we keep our military strength high we are doomed for a third world war—for a fourth one—because we may be in the beginning of the third one now in South Viet Nam."