Barry Goldwater. The man who should have been president. This guy was a man of impeccable honesty. His like is really hard to find nowadays in national politics.
sfgnyy Yes He was very close to Jack Kennedy; even though they were opponents. They were actually were planning the 1964 Election by traveling together on Air Force One to debate around the country.
Charles Garber Be gone Trumptard. Don't you have an excuse to make up for Trumps inability to understand that he can't rule by decree, bypassing the other two branches of government? Or maybe you're just as uneducated about it as Trump is?
Charles Garber Too bad those judges won't act in lock step with Trump, which they have already proven. They have to follow the constitution, not Trumps deluded ideas of how he can bypass the other two branches of government.
Charles Garber I'm taking a lunch break, working to support bloodsucking republicans tax cuts. You seem to think the supreme court operates along party lines ,which it most certainly does not. Chief justice Roberts is educating Trump to that fact lately.
We need more politicians like Mr. Goldwater now. I'm a Democrat but I've always loved Sen. Goldwater's bluntness, honesty and his respect and love for this country that he always displayed. He wasn't in it for himself. Would that those in DC today would see it that way.
Lara Carter: Don't fall for his bullshit here because Goldwater had terrible policy views and that's why he lost the presidential election by a landslide Goldwater wanted to end Social Security and Medicare among other things and let the elderly die homeless in the streets just to give rich people a tax cut. In fact, Goldwater is credited with reviving the extreme right wing views that we are fighting against today.
Kris: Goldwater would have hated your fanaticism and your inability to have a discussion without resorting to calling someone Libtard, he could actually argue his points and he would have hated what has happened to the republican party today.
Goldwater hated the religious right, and felt that sucking up to people like Jerry Falwell, which Regan did in the 'southern strategy, was a huge mistake. A lot of progressives and died-in-the-wool hippies hate Goldwater, as Goldwater was against the Civil Rights Act, without taking an honest look at why he was. Goldwater felt Title II and Title VII of the civil rights act violated the constitution. From the standpoint of constitutionality, he probably was right, and the absurd growth of Federal power, particularly since W Bush, is directly related to this overreach after 1964. However, Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States said the Civil Rights Act didn't violate the constitution, so there you go. Our government is now $21 Tril in debt and counting, with everyone looking for handouts from DC.
As a Libertarian, I have nothing but Love and Respect for Sen. Barry Goldwater during Watergate, Nixon Impeachment, and his fight vs Religious Right, and the Iran Contra Affair! All of those are Sen. Barry Goldwater's legacy!!!!
As much as i might have disagreed with a number of Goldwater's political pronouncements, i have always harbored a tremendous amount of respect toward him. Goldwater's unyielding commitment to the truth is what i have always admired about him, especially with respect to Watergate. 'One can take Goldwater out of Arizona, but one cannot take the Arizona out of Goldwater.' There is absolutely no doubt that a hypothetical match-up between JFK and Goldwater would have truly been an interesting 'horse race.'
Goldwater is absolutely right about the pardon of Nixon. He argues from the perspective that Nixon had not been indicted and not formally charged with any specific offense. Far beyond that, the Nixon pardon set up a lot of bad precedent. Before the proverbial excrement hit the fan, a Federal grand jury had been hot to indict Nixon. Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski talked them out of it. But no one, including the President, is above the law. Nixon could have been both indicted and impeached. It might have been messy, but we would have been better off because of it.
Whether you agreed with Goldwater in general terms, over the years, the one thing you can always say about him was that he told it the way he saw it and he was willing to say right from wrong. But one other thing is certain about Goldwater and America. We would have been much better served having Goldwater rather than LBJ and, had we had Goldwater, we may have never seen the return of Tricky Dick.
No. Goldwater would have probably used nukes to end the communist advancement into southeast Asia and history records the effective use of nuclear weapons as a measure to save both time, resources and lives in ending war rather than being mired down by wasted years, wasted resources and wasted lives. And that's a another distinction between LBJ and Goldwater. LBJ saw the Vietnam War as a way for him to profit personally because of his connections with certain business interests. Goldwater saw war as a either win or lose. America lost with LBJ at the helm.
ELK Uhm...yeah, but the only use of nuclear weapons to end a war brought to end a war that was already won, just not finished. And there was no one who could retaliate to that. Do you think nuking Hanoi (I assume that's what we're talking about) wouldn't have triggered WW3? Also, how to justify it? North Vietnam hadn't attacked the US like Japan did at Pearl Harbor. Leaving military and geopolitical considerations aside, I just think it would've been unacceptable politically but to the extreme far right.
Actually the hypothesis that no one could retaliate to our nuclear bombings in Japan is false. In fact, the Japanese were two weeks away from being able to do the same thing to the United States. And no. There's simply no evidence to suggest that had we nuked Vietnam that the Russian leadership at the time would have seriously contemplated widespread nuclear destruction. And that's why we got bogged down in Vietnam and ended up getting our asses whipped without even accounting for the detrimental health issues from Agent Orange. Of course LBJ and the military industrial complex profited as they always do from perpetual warfare and that's the result of namby pamby politics rather than letting the military end the ruckus quickly and save time, lives and resources for better things.
ELK The Japanese were two weeks away from dropping a nuclear bomb on the US? You're kidding, right? Also, I'm not talking about the USSR reacting to the US nuking North Vietnam by launching a first strike on the US. I'm talking about the USSR providing tactical nukes to the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong to be used against US military bases in South Vietnam, leading to massive US casualties and an escalation between nuclear powers. There is indeed evidence that the US considered using tactical nukes in Vietnam and realized it was crazy, and there is every reason to believe that Soviet hardliners would've pushed for some kind of indirect retaliation, considering the Cuban Missile Crisis embarassment had already cost Khrushchev his post. You might want to check this out: nationalinterest.org/feature/worst-idea-ever-dropping-nuclear-bombs-during-the-vietnam-13668?page=0%2C1 Cheers.
5:05 -- date was wrong, it was the 7th of august. The 5th was the day the White House released the "smoking gun." The meeting Goldwater recalls was the day before nixons announcement.
i will say that the great-grandaughter of Herbert Hoover named Margaret - Mrs. John Avlon - clearly evokes Barry M. Goldwater's spirit. After all, a then-nineteen year-old future statesman from 'The Copper State' once admired Hoover back in 1928.
Goldwater was as plain spoken in some ways like Truman, yet more graceful like Eisenhower. With those traits he could have been a good president .... but such is the fate that comes with circumstance ...
You can hear shades of McCain's own political philosophy in his predecessor, Goldwater, and McCain had a lot to live up to, and eclipsed him both in stature, and virtues.
Goldwater would have hated McCain's war mongering in Iraq and North Africa. He would have detested McCain's votes to increase and centralize power in DC. “It is a fact that Lyndon Johnson and his curious crew seem to believe that progress in this country is best served simply and directly through the ever-expanding gift power of the everlastingly growing Federal Government. One thing we all know, and I assure you I do: that’s a much easier way to get votes than my way. It always has been. It’s political Daddyism, and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.” Barry Goldwater
That Hit was just too big of a Job for one person to accomplish all by himself 🤔, that's probably why Ruby had to finish him off before he talked see🚬, isn't it obvious.
Gerald Ford was the last of the more progressive Republicans. His big mistake was dumping Nelson Rockefeller for Bob Dole. If Ford had won with Rockefeller in 1976 (which I think would have made a difference in New York and Pennsylvania) the Republican Party most likely doesn’t take sharp right turn with Reagan in 1980.
@@calebelliott1168 that's right. He was known to clean up the mess Nixon made. But of coz pardoning Nixon was a bold political move which cost his presidency. Today we look back in retrospect, that the pardoning was indeed a noble move.
In the same like fashion Nixion was not at the Watergate break in Physically, No, but he knew something about it 🤔 and tried to cover it up. And failed bottom line.😎
In my opinion , Senator Goldwater was a very fine man . Nixon wasn’t too bad m dreadful man either , he just made a stupid and elementary mistake for which there is no justifiable excuse.
At the frame 1:10 in the interview it appears that Goldwater is losing it when he suggests that Ford while VP in 1974 was going to New Hampshire to run for re- election. I can only figure he was referring to a visit Ford made to New Hampshire to support a candidate during the too close to call contested Senate Race there in November of 1974. It was a time when Ford had already succeeded to the Presidency after Nixon's resignation in August. Ford never announced his Presidential candidacy until July 1975. Maybe It's a good thing Goldwater never won in 1964 unless these symptoms of dementia happened only much later in his life.
Is there a person on the scene today who could do with DT what Goldwater did with Nixon? Speak honestly, give the situation, point him in the direction that’s best for the country? Or would DT listen to whomever, because he’s only about Donald John Trump?
Goldwater nearly destroyed the Republican party in 1964. Goldwater said he had no respect for Richard Nixon. I have no respect for Goldwater. Gerald Ford was absolutely correct in pardoning Nixon. Ford had more courage in that moment than Goldwater had in his entire life.
Precisely. He is the kind of conservative that only liberals like. Watergate was an extremely shady business: Mark Felt (associate FBI director) was feeding info to the WaPo, out of spite because he was passed over for promotion by the President. Nixon had no role in the break-in, and it was blown completely out of any proportion by the media. The whole story never made any sense, especially if one takes the trouble to read the articles of impeachment. I suspect Goldwater was waiting for his own moment to run again and saw his chance. The whole episode stinks.
