it shows the paranoia, unfairly surely, that surrounded barry goldwater in this atmosphere in which people really felt that the springs were being loosed in america's consensus. >> matthew joins us in miami. good evening. welcome to the program. >> thank you for taking my call. in 1986, congress passed a scholarship named after barry goldwater, and i don't know if the iron he ever escaped them based on what i have heard from the panel about barry goldwater's ideology, that a federal scholarship would go to students. the scholarship, the story of goldwater filibustering, if this is not the case, i would like to hear comments on his views on public education and if there is anything known about his feelings about the congress awarding people this scholarship.

impassioned. host: two years after richard nixon lost his governorship, he was still a player in the republican party in 1964. and according to your book, he was trying to figure out a way that the party may turn to him if barry goldwater. they didn't want either rockefeller or barry goldwater. >> yes. you mentioned the oregon primary, he actually established a secret boiler room in the placement in which people were hired to make calls to voters and say, wouldn't be a neat idea if richard nixon was drafted to be president? [laughter] this was richard nixon we are talking about. someone found out about it, a camera crew showed up. but richard nixon was always scheming and planning and hoping that goldwater or rockefeller would knock themselves out. there is a great cartoon which showed rockefeller and goldwater having a shoot out in the middle of an old western town and nixon was rubbing his hands in richard nixon's political undertaker