Word: goldwaterism
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One speaks with a Southern lilt, one has a Boston brogue, one a patrician richness, one a Western twang. They represent four different regions of the country, reflect four distinct personal styles and stand for four divergent political traditions. Their total years in the nation's service come to 128...
A few days before the Senate adjourned last month, Barry Goldwater sat in his office sorting memorabilia. The model of an Apache antitank helicopter was destined for the Arizona Air National Guard. A rare 1964 record album, The Goldwaters Sing Folk Songs to Bug the Liberals, was headed for his...
Throughout his three decades as a Senator, Goldwater remained loyal to a single, inflexible political principle: the right of the individual to be left alone, to be free from the intrusions of government. Once branded as a scary ultraconservative, Goldwater spent much of his time in the American political wilderness...
The son of Arizona's largest dry-goods merchandiser, young Barry started out in the family business. In 1949 he was so disgusted with the corrupt city government in Phoenix that he ran for city council. Three years later he was elected to the Senate on Dwight Eisenhower's coattails...
Goldwater's uncompromising libertarianism was appealing enough to both small-town Republicans and big-city wheeler-dealers to give him the 1964 presidential nomination, although he was crushed in a landslide of historic proportions. Today he sees it all as a kind of felix culpa, a happy fall. "It never...