he was the attorney for the goldwater department stores, and he got barry goldwater to run for the phoenix council, and then was his manager throughout -- till he got him the republican nomination. and he gave up his practice of law to do that, and when he was trying to organize a conservative taft delegation in the 1952 republican convention when taft contested eisenhower for the nomination, and he wanted a conservative delegation from arizona, he somehow horother found dick klein, who later became attorney general of the united states, as a magnum kum laude o of law school and ts one man, dennison kitchall who changed the course, and even if you don't deal with dick klein, had an important role. that's a remarkable man, and dennison kitchall was himself a very unusual man. he came from a very social family in new york. his father was the manager partner in the law firm that is the oldest law firm in new york, i looked that up, and he -- he went kitchall went to st. paul and yale and harvard law school and then moved out to arizona and he came from this long social background in new york,

he is the author of 20 books including biographies of ronald reagan, barry goldwater, edward nease, historiesof the american conservative movement and the heritage foundation. his works have been translated into chinese, japanese, swedish and french. he was a founding director at georgetown university and a fellow at the institute of politics at the john f. kennedy school of government at harvard. he is a past president of the philadelphia society and an

barry goldwater's the conscience of the conservative, the head of public policy and laid the foundation for all that is good and worthwhile in the modern conservative movement and i am happy to note that the american foundation agrees with his assessment and published the conscience of the conservative in 1990. maybe it's time for another edition. are you listening? let me add here the titles of a couple of my favorite books. the roots of american order by russell kirk. this is how five cities, athens, rome, gay jerusalem, london and philadelphia, shaped america. days gone by, william f. buckley jr. is a beautifully written autobiography by the founder of the american conservative movement. ethnic america pleaded no by thomas stole, our foremost black intellectual examines some of the ethnic groups, jewish, of rich, german, african-american, why some have a greater impact than others. let me be clear about one thing. a book is a book is a book. it is not a snippet or a scrap or a fragment. a book contains thousands of words, hundreds of pages, which permit the author to develop their ea

previous presidents, you look at the desks, robert taft, lyndon johnson, hubert humphrey, barry goldwater who have had a huge impact on the institution of american political history. this is the chamber where they fought their battles. there, tribute is paid to these people. >> the senate is almost like a living creature, not a whole breathing. and has a temple, atmosphere. you can watch it and see it. it is almost like a person. you treat it like you would treat another person. i think it responds well. even when you are trying to make it do something it does not want to do. >> the real role is to be a forum for the states. each senator is equal. to a degree. with any other senator. each senator can speak as long as he or she wishes to speak. there is freedom of speech. freedom of speech runs deep in english history. roman history, even, and colonial history and american history. since the constitution can along. freedom of speech. >> the senate chamber opened on january 4, 1859. on that day, members of the sun at as a body -- members of the senate as a body left the old chambers, walk d

previous presidents, you look at the desks, robert taft, lyndon johnson, hubert humphrey, barry goldwaterople who have had a huge impact on the institution of american political history. this is the chamber where they fought their battles. there, tribute is paid to these people. >> the senate is almost like a living creature, not a whole breathing. and has a temple, atmosphere. you can watch it and see it. it is almost like a person. you treat it like you would treat another person. i think it responds well. even when you are trying to make it do something it does not want to do. >> the real role is to be a forum for the states. each senator is equal. to a degree. with any other senator. each senator can speak as long as he or she wishes to speak. there is freedom of speech. freedom of speech runs deep in english history. roman history, even, and colonial history and american history. since the constitution can along. freedom of speech. >> the senate chamber opened on january 4, 1859. on that day, members of the sun at as a body -- members of the senate as a body left the old chambers, wa

the one with goldwater in 1964, several important speeches in the 1970's.nnounced he would run for president in november 1979. then again in july 1980 when he accepted the republican nomination for president. host: who did you talk to for this book? guest: you mean who did i not talk to? president carter, vice president mondale, vice president dick cheney, jim baker, the former president george h. w. bush, just the bush, david broder, tom brokaw, sears, peter and deferred -- all principal players still with us. from the reagan campaign, the carter white house, the kennedy campaign. i interviewed john anderson and his running mate, the former governor. i tried to talk to as many as possible and gather as much oral history as possible. host: mrs. reagan? guest: no, she has retired from interviews. i will forever be grateful to her that -- the 1985 files are sealed at the library because they have not been culminated yet. there are millions associated with his life there. but she told the library to open them exclusively for me to go through. i had exclusive r

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won't read all the names, i notice ranging from former ambassador of the united nations to barry goldwater, jr., to john whitehead the president of rutherford institute and so forth. that will be placed in the record in support of what you're doing. i'd also place in the record a number -- a letter from a number of people, including former come dant marine corps and others in support of what you're doing. i will put into the record a group from -- including bob barr, david king, the chairman of the american conservative union, grover norquist and others in support of what you're doing. and a letter from a number of the families of those who were killed in 9/11 in support of what you're doing, and i'll place that in the record also. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. attorney general, last january i was pleased by your commitment to close the detention center at guantanamo bay. for too long it's tarnished our image around the world and complicated our efforts to combat terrorism. although you faced greater than expected hurdles, nevertheless i'm disappointed that this morning president obama s

goldwater was the republican who would be considered by the liberal republican. that is he favored a skinny budget, but he also believed in pro choice, and believed in gay rights. that doesn't fit a lot of social republicans. but to me, there can be room for all sides of republican party. and if one side is eliminated, the party would be in some difficulties. but if you can obtain a position of neutral respect, i think it works. likewise in the democratic party. there's a role for moderates and moderation in it. and i personally recognize that there are major differences in judgment in services like issues like pro-choice or pro-life. but i don't think those issues should be captured within a political party. they should be the judgment of individual citizens, and individual legislators, and a people should ask to be true to their convictions, and hopefully respect others. but it shouldn't be a republican position, versus democratic position. you should have respect for each side within each party. >> did she make a mistake by supporting graham-leach? did it cont