Barry Goldwater

Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a United States politician and a founding figure in the modern conservative movement in the USA. Goldwater personified the shift in balance in American culture from the Northeast to the West. A five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-87), he was the Republican Party candidate for the U.S. President in the 1964 election which he lost to Lyndon B. Johnson.

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January 1 - 1909 - May 29 - 1998 - United States - Politician - Conservative - American culture - The Northeast - The West - United States Senator - Arizona - Republican Party - U.S. President - 1964 election - Lyndon B. Johnson

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Though many of the policies and ideas advocated by Goldwater were distinctly out-of-step with the liberal political consensus of the United States in the two decades following World War II, his losing campaign proved to be a turning point for the modern Republican Party, which just sixteen years later nominated and elected Ronald Reagan, a conservative in the Goldwater mold. By the end of his life, however, Goldwater had become frustrated with what he saw as Christian Right's influence on the Republican Party.

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Liberal - World War II - Ronald Reagan - Conservative - Christian Right

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