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Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election.
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Born 2 January 1909 · Died 29 May 1998 · Q319129
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2026· 5 entries
“What I was talking about was more or less”
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“Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn”
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“t influence his beliefs, which are animated by libertarian principles that government should stay out of people”
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“a triumph for the double-talking, co‐existence-with-Russia crowd here at home”
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2024· 3 entries
insider.si.edu: Barry Goldwater and the remaking of the American political landscape / edited by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
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Yahoo: Why Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign still matters 60 years later
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Yahoo: Barry Goldwater, the conservative Republican who fought to protect the environment
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2022· 1 entry
PBS: Barry Goldwater: Photographs and Memories
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2020· 1 entry
Psychology Today: Fact Magazine Takes on Barry Goldwater
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2016· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “In 1964, Hillary Clinton campaigned and voted for Barry Goldwater, who promised to overturn the Civil Rights Act and "re-segregate" America.” Mixture.
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2011· 1 entry
c-span: Barry Goldwater Speaks Out
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2010· 1 entry
Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, himself a Goldwater scholar and supporter, founded the Goldwater Women's Tennis Classic Tournament to be held annually at the Phoenix Country Club in Phoenix
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1998· 3 entries
At the age of 89, at his long-time home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, of complications from the stroke
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Died 1998-05-29.
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“I'm the most underdog underdog there is.”
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1996· 1 entry
Told Bob Dole, whose own presidential campaign received lukewarm support from conservative Republicans, "We're the new liberals of the Republican party
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1994· 1 entry
Explaining an upcoming Earth-orbiting ham radio relay satellite
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1988· 2 entries
Princeton University's American Whig-Cliosophic Society awarded Goldwater the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service in recognition of his career
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“just as anxious to see this material as you are, and I hope we will not have to wait much longer”
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1987· 5 entries
Won Langley Gold Medal (1987).
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Goldwater described Arizona Governor Evan Mecham as "hardheaded" and called on him to resign, and two years later stated that the Republican party had been taken over by a "bunch of kooks"
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Serving as Chair of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees in his final term
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Received the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution
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Said of Goldwater's legacy: "He transformed the Republican Party from an Eastern elitist organization to the breeding ground for the election of Ronald Reagan
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1986· 3 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Ronald Reagan (1986).
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Goldwater was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Reagan
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Oversaw passage of the Goldwater–Nichols Act, which strengthened civilian authority in the U
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1985· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1985–1987).
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And, in 1992, he married Susan Wechsler, a nurse 32 years his junior
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1983· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1983–1985).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (1982).
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1981· 4 entries
Goldwater voted in favor of Reagan's Supreme Court nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor
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Career landmark: United States senator (1981–1983).
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And he had not visited many areas of Arizona outside of Phoenix and Tucson
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Gave a speech on how he was angry about the bullying of American politicians by religious organizations and would "fight them every step of the way"
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1980· 3 entries
Came despite Reagan's 61% landslide over Jimmy Carter in Arizona
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Before deciding to run for one final term
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Republicans were able to pick up 12 senate seats, regaining control of the chamber for the first time since 1955, when Goldwater was in his first term
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1979· 2 entries
When President Carter normalized relations with Communist China, Goldwater and some other Senators sued him in the Supreme Court, arguing that the President could not terminate the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty wit
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Career landmark: United States senator (1979–1981).
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1977· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1977–1979).
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1976· 1 entry
Goldwater endorsed the incumbent Ford, looking for consensus rather than conservative idealism
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1975· 4 entries
Goldwater voted in favor of President Gerald Ford's nomination of John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court
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Goldwater wrote to Shlomo Arnon: "The subject of UFOs has interested me for some long time
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“The subject of UFOs has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information has been stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.”
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Career landmark: United States senator (1975–1977).
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1974· 2 entries
At the height of the Watergate scandal, Goldwater led a delegation, which also included House Republican Leader John Jacob Rhodes and Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, who met with Nixon at the White House and urged h
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When evidence of a cover-up in the Watergate scandal became overwhelming and impeachment was imminent
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1973· 2 entries
“He is completely innocent of charges that he knew about the Watergate break-in ahead of time or was cognizant of the massive attempt to cover up this episode and its related incidents.”
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Career landmark: United States senator (1973–1975).
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1971· 2 entries
Goldwater voted in favor of Nixon's nomination of Lewis F
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Career landmark: United States senator (1971–1973).
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1970· 1 entry
The Arizona Historical Foundation published the daily journal Goldwater had maintained on the Grand Canyon journey, including his photographs, titled Delightful Journey
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1969· 6 entries
And a few months later, Goldwater voted in favor of Nixon's failed Supreme Court nomination of Harrold Carswell on April 8, 1970
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Goldwater was absent during President Nixon's nomination of Warren E
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Goldwater's son Barry Goldwater Jr. served as a Republican Congressman, representing California from 1969 to 1983.
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And for the rest of his life, he appeared in many educational and promotional films (and later videos) about the hobby, produced for the American Radio Relay League (the national society representing the interests of rad
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And specialized in defense and foreign policy
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Career landmark: United States senator (1969–1971).
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1964· 5 entries
Campaign: 1964 presidential election.
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Campaign: 1964 general presidential election.
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“I personally believe that Goldwater is not an extremist as some people have made him, but in any event we”
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Would not be Kennedy but instead his vice president, former Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B
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Goldwater ran a conservative campaign that emphasized states' rights
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1963· 2 entries
Joined the Arizona Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
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Career landmark: United States senator (1963–1965).
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1962· 1 entry
But was present when Arthur Goldberg was unanimously confirmed
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1961· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1961–1963).
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“sometimes I think this country would be better off if we could just saw off the Eastern Seaboard and let it float out to sea.”
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1960· 1 entry
Also opposed Goldwater, calling his proposal of realigning the Democrat and Republican parties into two Liberal and Conservative parties "totally abhorrent" and thought that no one in their right mind should oppose the f
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1959· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1959–1961).
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1957· 3 entries
And voted in favor of the nomination of Potter Stewart on May 5, 1959
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Career landmark: United States senator (1957–1959).
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Prompting the AFL–CIO to challenge his 1958 reelection bid
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1955· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1955–1957).
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1954· 3 entries
When Warren was unanimously confirmed, voted in favor of Eisenhower's nomination of John Marshall Harlan II on March 16, 1955, was present for the unanimous nominations of William J
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“Yes. I have always done it, and I intend to continue. Those people who would like to do away with McCarthy are the type of people who would also like to coddle Communists.”
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Who had been making unfounded claims about communists infiltrating the U
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1953· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1953–1955).
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In the firm of Denison Kitchel of Phoenix, Goldwater's national campaign manager and friend of nearly three decades
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1949· 1 entry
When he was elected to the City Council as part of a nonpartisan team of candidates pledged to clean up widespread prostitution and gambling, serving at large from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1965
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1946· 2 entries
Two years before President Truman ordered the military as a whole be integrated (a process that was not completed until 1954)
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At the rank of Colonel, Goldwater founded the Arizona Air National Guard
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1945· 1 entry
Goldwater was a leading proponent of creating the United States Air Force Academy and later served on the academy's Board of Visitors
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1940· 1 entry
Became one of the first to run the Colorado River recreationally through the Grand Canyon, participating as an oarsman on Norman Nevills' second commercial river trip
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1934· 1 entry
Goldwater married Margaret "Peggy" Johnson, daughter of a prominent industrialist from Muncie, Indiana
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1928· 1 entry
And enrolled at the University of Arizona, but dropped out after one year
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1916· 1 entry
Goldwater visited the Hopi reservation with Phoenix architect John Rinker Kibby and obtained his first kachina doll
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1909· 3 entries
In Phoenix, Arizona, in what was then the Arizona Territory, the son of Baron M
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Born 1909-01-02.
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And thus works published during his career list this as his date of birth; however, in his later years, he discovered documentation revealing that he was actually born at 3 a
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1860· 1 entry
“My mother came out here with tuberculosis, was given three weeks to live and she died at 94 from drinking.”
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