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.

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.

Delegates to the Republican National Convention stage a huge demonstration for Senator Barry Goldwater, after his name was placed in nomination for the Presidency. Bettmann / Getty Images There ...

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.

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

Because ever-shifting groups of conservative activists have fought ever-evolving Republican establishments for more than a half-century, from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan to Newt Gingrich to ...

To the editor: I'm a registered Republican. I have been a Republican since I supported Barry Goldwater for president in 1964. At that time, I was the Republican coordinator for Coffee County, Ala.

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.

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