In what ways did conservatives see the 1960s as a failure rather than success?

Consider Lee Roy Chapman’s article on Billy James Hargis (link available in Week 12 of the syllabus) and Barry Goldwater’s speech at the 1964 Republic National Convention (in The American Yawp’s primary sources for chapter 27 – “The Sixties”) and answer the following prompt:

Both Goldwater and Hargis (along with Edwin Walker) argue that the 1960s was a decade of failures that needed a new direction for the country (albeit two very drastically different directions). In what ways did conservatives see the 1960s as a failure rather than success? In what ways did conservatives attempt to fix these issues in the 1970s?
Please include footnotes.

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