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When opponents assailed him in 1982 as a carpetbagger who was running for Congress only about a year after moving to Arizona, Republican John McCain had a ready retort: "The longest place I've ever lived in my life is Hanoi." That was no exaggeration: after a peripatetic life as...
Though McCain is a staunch conservative on most matters, befitting a successor to Goldwater, he is something of an independent on foreign policy. He supports sanctions against South Africa and favors military aid to the Nicaraguan contras but strongly opposes direct U.S. intervention in Central America. McCain has curbed his...
Goldwater never minced words. During the Watergate crisis in 1974, he journeyed to the White House to tell Richard Nixon that he had lost his support on Capitol Hill. In the 1980s, when many thought of him as a kind of political relic, he achieved perhaps his greatest effectiveness. Although...
At 77, Goldwater is jaundiced about the political process: "We've got Senators here with over 100 staff members, and they don't have anything to do, so they sit down and write amendments and bills. My God, the number of bills on the calendar every year is unbelievable. (Senators...
Mathias' 1980 re-election campaign cost $841,000, an amount he found indecent. Told that he would have to raise $4 million this year, he balked. "You know," Mathias observes, "Barry Goldwater said a couple of years ago that all of this money is a crisis of liberty. That was...