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Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president in 1964.
Goldwater's staff also realized that his radical plan to sell the Tennessee Valley Authority was causing even racist whites to vote for Johnson. A Florida editorial urged Southern whites not to support Goldwater even if they agreed with his position on civil rights, because his other positions would have grave economic consequences for the region.
He expresses alarm at Goldwater's contradictory, confrontational political views and support from the Ku Klux Klan (the result of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964) and says that he is afraid of Goldwater's instability and aggressive approach, and fears that it might lead to a nuclear war with the U.S.S.R.
Thus, they decided to warn the American people in an issue of their magazine (soon known as the "Goldwater issue" [2] of Fact) immediately after Goldwater's nomination on July 16. The issue at hand was the article published by Fact titled "The Unconscious of a Conservative: A Special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater" in the September ...
Senator Barry M. Goldwater, 1962. Barry Goldwater's executive experience stretched back to 1929, when he took over his family's department store chain "Goldwater's" after finishing one year at the University of Arizona. [4] By 1937, he became president of the chain and was chairman of the board by 1953. [5]
There are a few good people in American public life with famous family names—Margaret Hoover and Barry Goldwater Jr. and Ross Perot Jr. and people like that—who do good work, often quietly.
An author of the 1973 American Psychiatric Association standard says it was never meant to stop doctors from expressing their opinions based on public information.
The issue arose in 1964 when Fact magazine published "The Unconscious of a Conservative: A Special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater," [3] [5] [6] a play on the title of Goldwater's bestseller The Conscience of a Conservative. The magazine polled psychiatrists about Goldwater and whether he was fit to be president.