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Oct 20, 2020 · How Barry Goldwater Brought the Far Right to Center Stage in the 1964 Presidential Race. Despite a landslide loss, the Arizona Republican ignited his party's ultra-conservative wing for decades...
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.”
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.
Two years before he challenged Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 U.S. presidential election, Senator Barry Goldwater engaged in a debate with a fellow senator, Jacob K. Javits, in the pages of The Great Ideas Today, a Britannica publication.“Does America’s best hope for the future lie in political
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. He was 89. Credit:The Associated Press.
May 30, 1998 · Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona, the recklessly candid Republican Presidential candidate who founded the modern conservative political movement in America, died yesterday at his home in Paradise...
Barry Goldwater served five terms as a United States Senator for Arizona and was the Republican nominee for President in the Election of 1964. He is credited with reviving the conservative movement in the United States in the 1960's.
