He was going to clean that up and show what lasting American values really were. Goldwater was no bigot. He spoke with pride of his Jewish ancestry though he was not Jewish. He vehemently opposed the ...

From Barry Goldwater and the John Birch Society to Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and the Tea Party, you can draw a line from 1964 to today. Barry Goldwater was never going to win the 1964 presidential election.

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It almost seemed like a nominating convention. The organ roared; there were banners, signs and demonstrators. Then, as 1,800 Republicans cheered, clapped and whistled, Arizona’s Republican Senator ...

In the 1964 presidential campaign, LBJ ate Barry Goldwater for lunch and thereby, according to the pundits, stuck a fork in the heart of American conservatism. But Goldwater's politics were vindicated ...

Donald Trump has committed the Barry Goldwater mistake. In his 1964 speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, Goldwater said that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and ...

Lyndon B. Johnson’s decisive victory over Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election always comes up when the subject of landslide elections arises. Sam Gnerre Johnson had been ...

A statue of Barry Goldwater in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol. (Andrew Harnik/For The Washington Post) I have followed with some sympathy Michael Gerson’s columns on his alienation from the modern ...

In the affluent ’60s, it almost seems appropriate that presidential candidates are themselves fairly well-heeled. Jack Kennedy, of course, was a millionaire several times over. So is Lyndon Johnson.

The Arizona Republican Party is considering a censure of Cindy McCain: The draft resolution already passed in committee and will be voted on Saturday by the full body of several hundred state ...

Supporters cheer Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 27. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) To the editor: I'm a registered Republican. I have been a ...