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Visitors crowd around Barry Goldwater's fourth-floor suite in the old Senate Office Building, hoping to earn a passing handclasp or a hastily scrawled autograph. During a recent trip to the Midwest, a worshipful couple approached Goldwater in Des Moines to say that even their two-year-old...
Responsive Note. Four years ago, Barry Goldwater seemed little more than an attractive spokesman for a minority on the right edge of the G.O.P. Today, Goldwater stands not as the leader of a die hard sect but as one of the U.S. Republican Party's top two or three...
Goldwater pushes an alternative that is easy to understand: the less government the better. "My whole argument," he says, "is based on the historic concept that man can do best for himself, and when man can't do it for himself, then and only then should government step in...
It is in that role of salesman that Barry Goldwater has caught popular imagination. At his worst, Goldwater can stumble and stammer through carefully rehearsed texts. Fortunately, he is far more likely to toss away his prepared speech and make the same pitch in gutsy, give-em-hell language that...
Goldwater has that rarest of political attributes-star quality. A tanned, trim (185 Ibs.) six footer with searching blue eyes behind his dark-rimmed glasses, and a thinning shock of silver hair, Goldwater has more than his share of political sex appeal. "If Nixon had his looks," a lady Republican...