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It almost seemed like a nominating convention. The organ roared; there were banners, signs and demonstrators. Then, as 1,800 Republicans cheered, clapped and whistled, Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater walked onstage at the Coronado Theater in Rockford, Ill. It had been a long day-he had whisked...
Stabbing the air with a forefinger, Goldwater lashed out at the tractors-for-prisoners negotiations with Castro: "The disgusting, sickening spectacle of four Americans groveling before a cheap, dirty dictator," he called it. Then his evocation of national pride struck home. "How sick do we have to get?" he cried...
The message to Rockford was typical -and so was the response. In 1961, Barry Morris Goldwater, 52, traveling tirelessly about the land to champion the cause of the Republican Party, U.S. conservatism and his own variety of rugged individualism, is the hottest political figure this side of Jack Kennedy.
Blunt Terms. Almost every day, it seems, Goldwater's baritone voice can be heard telling the nation what he thinks it should know. In the ballroom of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel early last week, he arose before 1,200 top New York businessmen to plead for a return...
Since March, Goldwater's Washington office has received more than 650 written invitations for the Senator to put in an appearance, plus hundreds of telephoned requests. Goldwater's mail runs to a remarkable 800 pieces a day. Goldwater's political credo, The Conscience of a Conservative-a...