Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician, businessman, and author. He was a five-term Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He died a year later at the age of 89 from Alzheimer’s disease, which he had been suffering from since the 1970s.
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Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician, businessman, and author. He was a five-term Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the libertarian movement. He died a year later at the age of 89 from Alzheimer’s disease, which he had been suffering from since the 1970s. His father was Jewish and his mother, who was Episcopalian, came from a New England family that included the theologian Roger Williams of Rhode Island. His paternal grandfather, Michel Goldwasser, a Polish Jew, was born in 1821 in Konin, then part of Congress Poland, whence he emigrated to London following the Revolutions of 1848. Michel married Sarah Nathan, a member of an English-Jewish family, in the Great Synagogue of London. His parents were married in an Episcopal church in Phoenix; for his entire life he referred to himself as a rare Episcopal man. He dropped out of college after one year to be the most recent non-college graduate to be admitted to Staunton Military Academy, where he played varsity football, basketball, track and swimming, and attained the rank of treasurer and captain of the football team. He later went on to found the Goldwater–Nichols Act of 1986, arguably his most significant legislative achievement.
He lobbied for homosexuals to be able to serve openly in the military, opposed the Clinton administration’s plan for health care reform, and supported abortion rights and the legalization of medicinal marijuana. He supported the 1980 presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan, who had become the standard-bearer of the conservative movement after his \”A Time for Choosing\” speech. He urged President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974 when evidence of a cover-up in the Watergate scandal became overwhelming and impeachment was imminent. He retired from the Senate and was succeeded by John McCain, who praised his predecessor as the man who “transformed the Republican party from an Eastern elitist organization to the breeding ground for the election of Reagan’s election’”. Goldwater’s views grew increasingly libertarian as he neared the end of his career. He did not often attend church, though he did on rare occasions as a man—and it doesn’t have a lot to do with how he gets inside a church with how often he gets to do a lot of business. He wrote a book about his experiences, “Barry Goldwater: A Memoir,” which was published in 1986. He is survived by his wife, Hattie Josephine “JoJo” Williams, and his son, Barry Goldwater, Jr., who was also a senator from Arizona. The Goldwater-Nols Act was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, making it one of the most significant pieces of legislation in the history of the U.S. Senate.
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