Barry Goldwater, pictured near Tuba City around 1938. Goldwater voted against the 1964 Wilderness Act, but two decades later he was instrumental in the passage of the Arizona Wilderness Act of 1984.

Goldwater’s delegates shouted them down, and Barry threw the issue back in the moderates’ faces. “I like those lines,” he said, and he ordered them underlined in his printed text.

That hard turn started 60 years ago this week when Republicans nominated Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona at the July 13-16, 1964, Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace near San Francisco.

Arizona's Barry M. Goldwater was called an extremist. Here's how he paved the way for extreme forms of conservatism in US politics.

This belief infused Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign. His winning the GOP nomination was no small thing; he was hardly the establishment favorite.

"With their blind willingness to concentrate power in the president while generating massive deficits that will topple our ...

Alabamians not only voted for Barry Goldwater but also pulled the straight Republican lever out of anger toward Lyndon Johnson’s civil rights agenda.Alabama’s eight-member congressional ...

I am worried about the potential for 2024 to become 1964, when Republican Barry Goldwater was annihilated by Lyndon B. Johnson. I lived through 1964, and I saw how badly a bitterly split party can ...

As that convention opened in San Francisco, Newsday’s board explained the unexpected rise of conservative Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, poised to become the GOP nominee.