barry goldwater's the conscience of a conservative, said john goodwin, head of the national center for public policy, laid the foundation for all its good and worthwhile in the modern conservative movement. and i am happy to note that yog america's foundation agrees with goodman'sssessment and published a paperback edition of conscious of the conservative back in 1990. maybe it is time for another edition. ron robinson, are you listening wax well, let me add here. the roots of american order by russell kirk. it is a story of how five cities, athens, rome, jerusalem, london and philadelphia shaped america. days gone by, william f. buckley, jr. this is a beautifully written autobiography by the founder of the american conservative movement. ethnic america, by thomas old, our foremost lack intellectual examines some of the ethnic groups, jewish, irish, german, afrin-american, that make up amera and suggests why some of had a greater impact than others. let me be clear about one thing. a book is a book is a book. it's not a snippet or a scrap or a fragment. a book contains thousands of wor

because many of them helped barry goldwater get nominated in 1964. and then in 1965, buckley said, "enough." buckley himself had matured politically. he'd run for mayor of new york. he'd seen how politics really worked. and he said, "we can't allow ourselves to be discredited by our own fringe." so, he turned over his own magazine to a denunciation of the john birch society. more important, the columns he wrote denouncing what he called its "drivel" were circulated in advance to three of the great conservative republicans of the day, ronald reagan, barry goldwater, senator john tower, from your home state of texas, and tower read them on the floor of congress into the congressional record. in other words, the intellectual and political leaders of the right drew a line. and that's what we may not see if we don't have that kind of leadership on the right now. >> moyers: to what extent is race an irritant here? because, you know, i was in that era of the '60s, i was deeply troubled as we moved on to try to pass the civil rights act and the voting rights

on november 6, 3 days after lbj defeats barry goldwater in the election, the president hasn't alwaysedicare supporter and well-known pediatrician and activist, doctor benjamin spock. >> it might be on abc yesterday, we take a half of a half hour before our medicare which abc is putting on sunday afternoon. >> i will watch it. >> going onto the next that. >> dyou limit what program it is on, what they call it? >> something issues. sunday afternoon. >> issues and answers. >> first they had an expert of the ama to take the other half of the program, and when he found that i was going to do the other half, the ama would do him and they said they did want the country to get the impression that the medical profession was splion this issue. [laughter] >> then they got abc got senator tower of texas, and he called them, this was to be taken yesterday afternoon. and then wind power called abc yesterday morning and said that texas was a shambles and he couldn't come up to do it. [laughter] >> so they finally g congressman curtis, and he was doing sometime today. to do the tape. >> that is very

barry goldwater jr., welcome to you. why do me -- why do you not like this lawsuit? >> i think you hit the nail on the head. we have got enough problems. we have 145 members of congress, nine supreme court justices, one president. that is 545 people out of 300 million. they alone are responsible for the problems we have. we should hold them accountable, that -- not adding more representatives. connell: they were talking about equal representation, saying that some states are not getting a fair shake. >> it is a reflection of the frustration that people are feeling today as the government has gotten out of control. the government no longer respects the hard working people and the money they earn. they are trying to find a solution to the problem of too much government. >> you obviously feel that way as well. you think that there is too much government, give me a different solution. >> when i was in congress i represented about half of a million people. now it is about 600. that is not the problem, the problem is that members of congress in that house are always passin

mention barry goldwater. >> i see goldwater is plying back.se going to be -- vote going to be close today? on medicare? i see he's flying back from arizona. >> to vote on it. >> you don't let him beat us, carl. >> i voted this before. >> as i remember you waited for us to see if we had to have him. won't you do that today? >> i might. >> do that now, because we can't lose this one. this is one we can't lose. we got to have these old people and they think he's all over the country. and the polls show that's the most population we got. >> well. you agree to do what you did last time, wait and see. if we don't need you, do what you want to. but don't let us lose it and let the republicans win over me. >> i hate for that to happen. >> do like you did before. wait and see, if we don't have to have you, we don't. we hope we don't. >> we'll see. >> okay. thank you. >> l.b.j. and senate appropriations committee chairman and democrat carl hayden, talking about legislation under the debate in the senate on september 2nd, 1964. later that day, the shatt

the fore as a candidate by esntially appropriating the rhetoric and also the argument first of barry goldwat, then of richard nixon, then of ronald reagan. essentially not in the libelous sense, he essentially plagiarized the vocabulary of the forgotten america, the one who plays by the rules and works hard. this comes right out of goldwater's 1964 odes to the forgotten america, later the moral majority under -- the silent majority under nixon and the moral majority under reagan. there's another point, too. i describe early in the book how when clinton took office some will remember he actually had a stimulus package of his own. remember this? $19 and a half billion. it seemed like so much money ck then. [laughter] and bob dole stopped him, stopped him four times with a filibuster which was a precedent-breaking maneuver of another kind that gets us into a different territory. but in the end clinton got a very watered-down bill. i think it was 4 billion simply unemployment insurance, and the republicans were right: the economy recovered. and clinton, quite amazingly you will see this in rober

. >> for which it stands -- >> reporter: and it has been since presidential candidate barry goldwaterit in his campaign ads. >> it's fundamentally american and uniquely american. i don't know any nation that has that statement which ties us together in our declaration, and the pledge picking up on those ideas. >> reporter: 37 states have laws requiring that their schools begin the school day with the pledge of allegiance. while 13 have no law or have an option to recite the pledge. almost as ubiquitous is the controversy that comes along with. the group of the united states for separation of church and state, has issued a statement that it wants schools to reminder parents and kids that they have no obligation to recite the pledge of allegiance. >> we're not saying that the teacher has to get up in a bull horn and scream, you don't have to participate if you don't want to. >> reporter: they do want schools to incorporate the right of refusal into school policy and notify parents of the policy. legally, they're on sound footing with the supreme court decision from 1943, that came as a

at one time, when those of us to begin walking precincts for barry goldwater in '64 we realized we were in a battle for the eastern establishment that controlled our party, they were not limousine liberals, they were bored rude republicans and we the people to it away from that element. in the west i thinkoday w have a western liberal establishment. monied ryan ellis will attempt to run the parties today. we have a neefo people of money at ourle but w also have a need for all other segments for libertarians for the christian right and four ethnic communities and hispanics. in california we are soon becoming once again ani do emphasize once again because california started out hispanic state and hispanics are coming back in great numbers. unfortunately we look around this convention and there are not enough people of color. we need to be including them because they are our neighbors. we build all of those elements into the party and then we can recapture party and we need to tu to the think tank's afailable to us today to stimulate and encourage the message of our movement in our party a

if telling kids to stay in school and work hard is socialism, then ronald reagan and barry goldwaterwere socialists. it's ridiculous. >> they wouldn't have changed what they want the kids to write about, unless they saw that there was a bit of a problem here. and they started out saying, i want you all to write a letter to yourselves about why you want to stay in school, about what your educational goals are. fine, but they changed it from write a letter to the president about how you're going to help him, and i think it's clear that the white house thought it was a problem. now whether or not it was a problem, he didn't get a chance to speak, so who knows, and i think there's a difference between george bush going to the fourth grade or jimmy carter going to the third grade and a national, everybody tune in to the internet, i'm going to talk to all the kids, which is a great idea. >> there was nothing in that letter that was about anything political. it was all about you kids stay in school, you kids work hard and there was a lousy sentence in there. >> why did they change it? >> th

john mccain got a smaller share of the vote in california than barry goldwater did.ever, the group that got together to oppose gay marriage won the entire state, and among african-americans, they carried 55% of african-american votes, whereas mccain only got 5%. so, these issues -- you can energize a lot of grassroots democrats out there who very much are sort of populist and conservative on the social issues, but you've got to watch how you do it. >> yeah, okay. guys, i'm supposed to go, but i want to have my director quickly throw up the field there, the names of those that are being considered and being talked about for the possible 2012 contenders. peter, i want to ask you who you think may emerge as a winner, and also whether or not you agree with joe scarborough, who was on earlier today saying keep this tape, alex, because i'm telling you right now, sarah palin, despite what pat buchanan says -- although joe didn't reference that -- is not going to get more than 43%, 44% in a general election. it will never happen. and he said, again, "never happen." what do y

that's barry goldwater's granddaughters who developed it. >> really?990 it first came out. and they really changed the world when it came to fruit salsa. very authentic recipe. and it's just a lot of different flavors going on. >> what kind of fruits are in there? >> i think this one is the pineapple. >> okay. definitely some nice tastes. >> got something. >> something for everyone. fill lampery, thanks very much. i get congested. my eyes itch. i have to banish you to the garden. but now with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. i can breathe freer with zyrtec-d®. so, i'll race you to our favorite chair. i might even let you win. zyrtec-d® lets me breathe easier, so i can love the air™. zyrtec-d®. behind the pharmacy counter. no prescription needed. i'm more active, i eat right, and i switched to new one a day women's active metabolism. a complete women's multivitamin plus more for metabolism support. and that's a change i feel good about. new from one a day. there's the other stuff. ♪ and then there's k

an active member of the conservative movement in 1962 i was the first organizing operation for barry goldwatereed at the steamboat institute right now more than ever is the recession and understanding of the principles. i would love to see the day when the demrats and republicans compete to 62 tankan with more effective conservative programs. we're not there yet president talabani. [laughter] but for two long, we have the two parties competing for another set up idea. i was a conservative for a republican and a democrat fore a conservative. we need to convince a lot of people whore not conservatives of the wisdom of our policies and values and when that happens to a party politics take care of itself if the priiples and i use but we invited them to come they did not come this time it may be next time. but to be a part of the economy, finance, budget a of these the have happened in the last 10 months, the world can go a numberf different ways right now. when you have a real economic event that shocks the nation as this one has come aery ofte it has big conseences. in the panic of 1893 and the d

i was the first organizing sub-california for barry goldwater, reagan's campaigns. and we need what the steamboat institute is offering now, i think more than ever. it is a reassertion and an understanding and an application of conservative principle. it is a bipartisan proposition. i would love to see the day when democrats and republicans compete to see who can come up with more effective conservative programs. we are not there yet. [ applause ] >> moderator: but for too long in our past we had two parties competing for another set of ideas. and i was a conservative before i was a republican and i was a democrat before i was a conservative as a kid. i got convinced by conservative ideas and today i think we need to convince a lot of people who are not conservatives of the wisdom of our policies and values and when that happens we'll let the party politics take care of itself if our principles and our values are appreciated. so that is what we're here for. we invited blue dog democrats. they didn't come this time, maybe they'll come next year. a few may be out of o

i was the first organizing southern california operation for barry goldwater. i spoke at all of ronald reagan's campaigns. what the steamboat institute is offering now more than ever, we need. it's in their reassertion -- a bipartisan proposition. i would love to see a day when the democrats and republicans compete to see who could come up with more effective conservative programs. we are not there yet. [applause] 42 long in our past, we had to parties competing for another set of ideas. -- for too long in our past, we had to parties competing with another set of ideas. as a democrat before i was a conservative as a kid and was convinced by conservative ideas. today, we need to convince a lot of people who are not conservatives of the wisdom of our policies and values. when that happens, we will let the party politics take care of itself if our principles and values are appreciated. that is why we are here for. we invited the blue dog democrats and they did not come this time. a few of them may be out of office next time. [laughter] there is no better moment th

house over four years the chairmanship in the senate join from john power to ic goldwater and barry goldwater had their own legislation. we ended up in conversation passing later goldwater/nickels act which was not well received. followinghat i shared a panel working on joining education. and we ended up with a series of year-long hearings where se came out with phase one ab phase two, you know all of that, and ted to reestablish vigor. we found that the various w colleges varied in complexity and difficulty. and the marines were way behind and to outraise credit and turned around 180 degrees. and air force had a long way to go. and that came around, the army was getting a b or b plus and doing pretty well. best was in '80 by far. and you didn't have to go there to get promoted. but it was for some reason the premier of in 1988. well, fast forward to today. you have the war challenges, including the national, have they fulfilled their main purpose in le? and what is the main purpose? well, mr. snyder mentioned it was to create strategic thinker. evybody that graduated from school is not going