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Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 [1] – 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 .
6 days ago · Barry Goldwater (born January 1, 1909, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.—died May 29, 1998, Paradise Valley, Arizona) was a U.S. senator from Arizona (1953–64, 1969–87) and the Republican presidential candidate in 1964. Goldwater dropped out of college and began working in his family’s Phoenix department store, Goldwater’s, of which he was ...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Barry Goldwater was an American politician best known as a senator from Arizona and the Republican candidate for president in 1964. Updated: Sep 13, 2022. Bettmann / Contributor. (1909-1998)...
Oct 20, 2020 · When the far-right Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater ran for the American presidency in 1964, he never even pretended to woo voters in the political center. “Extremism in the defense of liberty...
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.
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As senator, Goldwater advocated a limited federal government while championing a stronger national defense. His widely read 1960 book, The Conscience of a Conservative, brought the Arizona senator to national attention as he became a founder of the modern conservative movement.
As senator, Goldwater proposed a new—some said radical—political agenda. "He preached the cause of modern conservatism," wrote one biographer, which emphasized “individualism, the sanctity of private property… anticommunism, and the dangers of centralized power.”
