Barry Morris Goldwater Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a businessman and five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–65, 1969–87) and the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election. An articulate and charismatic figure during the first half of the 1960s, he was known as "Mr. Conservative".Goldwater is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the libertarian movement.Goldwater rejected the legacy of the New Deal and fought through the conservative coalition against the New Deal coalition. He mobilized a large conservative constituency to win the hard-fought Republican primaries. Goldwater's conservative campaign platform ultimately failed to gain the support of the electorate and he lost the 1964 presidential election to incumbent Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson by one of the largest landslides in history, bringing down many Republican candidates as well. The Johnson campaign and other critics painted him as a reactionary, while supporters praised his crusades against the Soviet Union, labor unions, and the welfare state. His defeat allowed Johnson and the Democrats in Congress to pass the Great Society programs, but the defeat of so many older Republicans in 1964 also cleared the way for a younger generation of American conservatives to mobilize. Goldwater was much less active as a national leader of conservatives after 1964; his supporters mostly rallied behind Ronald Reagan, who became governor of California in 1967 and the 40th President of the United States in 1981.Goldwater returned to the Senate in 1969, and specialized in defense policy, bringing to the table his experience as a senior officer in the Air Force Reserve. In 1974, as an elder statesman of the party, Goldwater successfully urged President Richard Nixon to resign when evidence of a cover-up in the Watergate scandal became overwhelming and impeachment was imminent. By the 1980s, the increasing influence of the Christian right on the Republican Party so conflicted with Goldwater's views that he became a vocal opponent of the religious right on issues such as abortion, gay rights, and the role of religion in public life. A significant accomplishment in his career was the passage of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, which restructured the higher levels of the Pentagon by placing the chain of command from the President to the Secretary of Defense directly to the commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands.
Politician, Photographer, Businessperson, Military Officer
Education
University of Arizona
Nationality
American
Spouse
Susan Shaffer Wechsler
Children
Michael, Margaret, Joanne
Parents
Hattie Josephine Williams, Baron M. Goldwater
Siblings
Robert Goldwater, Carolyn Erskine
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Mr. Nixon hurt the Republican Party and he hurt America and, frankly, I don't think he should ever be forgiven. He came as close to destroying this country as any one man in that office ever has come.
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You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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Hubert H. Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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I don't think there was any Reagan revolution. This country is based, its economy is based, on free enterprise. The government's based on a constitutional democracy. And all Reagan did was to continue what Harry Truman did and George Washington started.
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"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" - Acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention, 1964.
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Was a Charter and Founding member of the Arizona NAACP.
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In 1964, became the first Republican nominee for U.S. President to receive less than twenty percent of the black vote.
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During World War II while serving at Luke Field he was squadron leader to Gene Autry.
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Through his father, he was a second cousin, three times removed, of actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Goldwater's paternal great-grandparents, Hirsch Goldwasser and Scheindel-Chawe/Fravda, were also Christopher's maternal great-great-great-great-grandparents.
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His paternal grandfather, Michael Goldwasser, was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and his paternal grandmother, Sarah Nathan, was from an English Jewish family. His mother was from a family that lived in the American Midwest for several generations, and had English ancestry.
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Inducted into the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame in 2001 (inaugural class).
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Inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1982.
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Inducted into the Arizona Outdoor Hall of Fame in 1998 (inaugural class).
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Inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame in 1990.
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Received the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Gold Medallion in 1983.
Retired from the U.S. Senate in 1986. From 1987 to the present (2015), his former seat has been held by John McCain.
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In 2006, his nephew, Donald Goldwater, sought the Republican nomination for Arizona governor, only to lose the nomination to Len Munsil (who eventually lost the gubernatorial election to Democratic incumbent Governor Janet Napolitano).
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While running for president, he was endorsed by Ronald Reagan. In addition, despite his election loss, he was credited for helping pave the way for Reagan's presidency.
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His presidential campaign slogan was "In your heart, you know he's right." In response, President Lyndon Johnson's campaign spoofed it with "In your heart, you know he might" and "In your guts, you know he's nuts."
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In 1974, during the height of the Watergate scandal, he advised President Richard Nixon he should resign from office.
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Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 235-237. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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During his 1964 presidential campaign, a television ad featuring a girl counting daisies, followed by a mushroom cloud, was broadcast. The commercial was designed to imply that he would start a nuclear war if he were elected president. Known as the "Daisy ad", the attack ad was viewed as a factor in his landslide defeat by incumbent Lyndon Johnson.
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In his later years, he became estranged from his own party, which he saw as becoming influenced by the religious right - something he strongly opposed as a conservative libertarian.
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Member of the US Republican Party.
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Credited with defining the core values of the modern-day Republican party.
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Was an amateur radio operator and held license K7UGA.
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Was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
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Inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1991.
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The chemical equasion "AuH2O" was often used as a symbol for support of Goldwater during one of his presidential campaigns. "Au" is the Periodic table symbol for gold, and "H2O" hydrogen (x2) and oxygen, creating water. "AuH2O" literally being "gold water".
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He was well known as the first Amateur Radio operator to serve in the United States Senate.
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He served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II - he retired from the Air Force Reserve in 1969 with the rank of Major General.
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U.S. senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987). Lost 1964 presidential election to Lyndon Johnson.
Self
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Year
Status
Character
Cadillac Desert
1997
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1993-1995
TV Series
Himself
Firing Line
1966-1989
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
John Wayne Standing Tall
1989
TV Movie
Himself
The Pat Sajak Show
1989
TV Series
Himself
Broken Rainbow
1985
Documentary
Himself
I Love Liberty
1982
TV Special
Himself
V.I.P.-Schaukel
1979
TV Series documentary
Himself
UFO's Are Real
1979
Documentary
Himself - US Senator
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart
1978
TV Special
Himself (as Sen. Barry Goldwater)
Dinah!
1975-1976
TV Series
Himself
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Dean Martin
1976
TV Special
Himself (as Sen. Barry Goldwater)
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Evel Knievel
1975
TV Special
Himself
The Dean Martin Show
1973
TV Series
Himself
The David Frost Show
1970-1972
TV Series
Himself
Dinah's Place
1971
TV Series
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
1970
TV Series
Himself - US Senator
The Merv Griffin Show
1965-1970
TV Series
Himself
The Mike Douglas Christmas Special
1969
TV Movie
Himself (uncredited)
The Joey Bishop Show
1968
TV Series
Himself
CBS Reports
1967
TV Series documentary
Himself
NET Journal
1967
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1966
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Today
1965
TV Series
Himself
The Delegate
1964
TV Movie documentary
Himself
World in Action
1964
TV Series documentary
Himself
Issues and Answers
1964
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself
The Jack Paar Program
1963-1964
TV Series
Himself / Senator Barry Goldwater
Longines Chronoscope
1952
TV Series
Himself - U.S. Senator
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Jeopardy!
2016
TV Series
Himself
Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match
2016
TV Movie documentary
Himself
All the Way
2016
TV Movie
Himself (uncredited)
Imminent Threat
2015
Documentary
Himself
The Raising of America
2015
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All
2014
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Sixties
2014
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself (as Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-AZ)
American Experience
1991-2014
TV Series documentary
Himself
20/20
2011
TV Series documentary
Himself
Reagan
2011
Documentary
Himself
Hubert H Humphrey: The Art of the Possible
2010
TV Movie documentary
Himself - 1964 Republican Presidential Nominee
Variations on a High School Romance
2010
Himself
Bill Moyers' Journal
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself - Senator, Arizona
William F. Buckley: Right from the Start
2008
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
2006
Documentary
Himself
Rumor Has It...
2005
Himself (uncredited)
Biography
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
Frontline
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
Hardball with Chris Matthews
2004
TV Series
Himself
LBJ vs. the Kennedys: Chasing Demons
2003
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara