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Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) 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 1964.. Goldwater was born in Phoenix, Arizona, where he helped manage his family's department store.
Apr 2, 2014 · Barry Goldwater was an American politician best known as a senator from Arizona and the Republican candidate for president in 1964.
The 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater began when United States Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona elected to seek the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States to challenge incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson.Early on, before officially announcing his candidacy for the presidency, Goldwater was accused by Governor of New York Nelson Rockefeller of ...
Oct 20, 2020 · Goldwater’s views–and his lasting legacy–are reflected in the slim, ghostwritten book he published in 1960, The Conscience of a Conservative.“Its publishers originally fretted over ...
May 25, 2024 · After winning several key victories in the 1964 primary elections, Goldwater won the Republican presidential nomination on the first ballot. He fought a determined campaign against the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson, but national prosperity worked in Johnson’s favour, and Goldwater was handicapped by the charge that he was an extreme anticommunist who might carry the country into war ...
Barry Goldwater was born in Arizona on New Year’s Day 1909, three years before Arizona became a state. He loved exploring its rugged landscape, often piloting his own plane and always carrying a camera. He considered a military career, but his father’s poor health forced him into the family business, Goldwater’s Department Store.
Born in Arizona in 1909 (three years before it became a state), Barry Goldwater loved exploring and photographing the rugged southwestern landscape. He considered a military career, but his father’s poor health forced him into the family business, Goldwater’s Department Store. In the 1940s he turned his attention to politics.
May 28, 1998 · Goldwater’s 1964 Presidential campaign was a disaster for the candidate but a war won for the Republicans. Goldwater had wrested the nomination process from the kingmakers in the East, and ...
May 29, 1998 Barry Goldwater, Conservative and Individualist, Dies at 89 By ADAM CLYMER arry M. Goldwater, the recklessly candid Republican Presidential candidate who founded the modern conservative political movement in America, died on Friday in Paradise Valley, Ariz.
May 29, 1998 · Barry Goldwater Dead At 89. PHOENIX, Ariz. (AllPolitics, May 29) -- Republican conservative patriarch Barry Goldwater, a former Arizona senator and presidential candidate, died Friday at age 89.
