goldwater added a great deal to the movement as well. no question about that, goldwater was a very brave man and when he ran in 1960 and 1964, he took on a project that he didn't want to do, he knew he couldn't win, but he was willing to do it because he seriously believed in conservative principles and it was laid out in his book, "the conscience of the conservative." he was a true believer and felt running for president would give him the pulpit to make the case to people and help the movement, so you have to admire him for that. >> did he write the book? >> no, it was ghost written by brent bozell. bill buckley's roommate at yale, who was a lawyer, very well-educated man and a wonderful writer, and i think, actually, somebody else suggested to goldwater that we will have this book written for you and goldwater said, fine. bozell had been writing speeches for goldwater, so he knew his thought process, and i guess he talked to goldwater several times as he was writing the book about different points and read what he had written as well,

that's how goldwater did it. he had to organize the grass roots. the religious right, as lee pointed out, did the same thing. now the tea party. in all cases, any effort on the part of conservatives to battle the establishment has had to go through the grass roots rather than from the top down. so it's not that moderates were immune to or against doing this. they never really had to. they assumed they were, you know, sort of the historical basis of the republican party so it was the others who were crashing the party. >> just one quick observation. i think individuals make a great deal of difference, without ronald reagan and william f. buckley, the conservative movement would have looked a lot difference. one of the problem with the moderates is they didn't have thomas dewey anymore. he understood the necessity of organization and got moderates to organize and take over the party apparatus. >> and nibson talked about picking it up but even if he had been able to and i doubt he would have, watergate disclosed him from doing that. >> thank you very

richard nixon had just introduced goldwater. he was sitting behind him. he said this is a man known as mr. conservative. today he becomes known as mr. republican. november we will call him mr. president. nixon says down and goldwater starts out with what is later called robbing of vigor in the wounds of and moderates who were entering. nixon did not applaud. he was very much starting to plan his comeback. he supported the ticket but he was not going to be drawn in that kind of radical conservatism. he got into and conversation. nixon always wanted to play to a broad party base and be as inclusive as he could. sometimes his lack of spontaneity made that awkward. >> i have to transition. our soon to be nominee, there are questions about mitt romney's past position and governance of massachusetts. i want to open that up to the panel about his father, his lineage has an important moderate in his father, george romney, who was a significant candidate for president in 1968. can you tell us about romney and his relation to his own past and his lineage and what t

goldwater starts out with what nixon later called rubs salt and vinegar in the wounds of any moderates who were lingering. and nixon carefully, in that spotlight did not applaud that line. he -- was very much -- i had come to know him by then. he was very much starting to plan, a '68 comeback and just couldn't -- he had to -- he wouldn wouldn't -- would and did support the ticket but was not going to be drawn into that radical conservative. got into a very heated conversation. sitting next to him. just look at the tape. nixon always wanted to play to a broad party base and to include, as inclusive as he could, and sometimes his lack of spontaneity made that an awkward shift. reminds me of a current kennedy trying to do that. >> when you said transition to, i thought, i wanted to ask, but not on the campaign trail, following many republicans around, but especially our soon to be nominee, and, of course, there are questions about mitt romney's past positions and past governance of massachusetts. how much he has -- but i wanted to open that up later plab maybe to the plan. his lineage, mo

i had a goldwater button in second grade it was. my parents gave it to me. he transformed the republican party into the conservative party. under eisenhower and the bearer before that, republicans were a fairly moderate party. it was an accommodation with the welfare state, couldn't repeal social security. they didn't want to. we have to slow the growth of government. goldwater said extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice. he transformed the party as well. i'm going to wrap it you up it , but george mcgovern, lost in a land slide. truly got wiped out. if you picked up a newspaper in 1964, the headline would have been goldwater discredits conservatism. it is dead because of barry gold water, and in 1972, it was the same of mcgovern that the liberal movement was dead and things were discredited. of course, neither was true. 16 years after goldwater, reagan running the most conservative campaign in decades was elected president, and also in 1972, mcgovern created a new coalition of democrats around minorities, women, the young, highly educated activists,

show face the nation has come out in support of barry goldwater's. position on medical marijuana booker tweeted i'm with you on medical marijuana and new jersey should do more to make it real for those who need it and interestingly the same percentage of americans in favor of marriage equality also favor legalizing medical marijuana so president obama we need your leadership again on an issue that is hitting millions of americans really hard there are literally lives in the balance and there's a tremendous upside to you taking this bold step to bring millions of young people who think their libertarians over to your side please use the bully pulpit of the white house to call for an end nixon's failed war on drugs and to push for the very real medicine of marijuana to be used as nature intended as a medicine oh and vice president biden if you want to step into this and blurt out some words in defense of our medical marijuana now would be a great time. in this. changing. by now. may our minds. may. tire tracks. down a. ladder . but. i am. where. i am i

so here's another opportunity to reach out to barry goldwater's new generation the libertarians that will help our economy will help and even save the lives of millions of americans over the next generation and will solidly nail down president obama's election in two thousand and twelve by grabbing virtually all of the young ron paul voters and that's for the president to come out in favor of ending all federal laws that prohibit medical marijuana in the states just like with gay weddings medical marijuana will stimulate local economies all over the country it's a new industry after all and since pot roast you know it's a weed it goes pretty much fine anywhere in america it's an industry that mitt romney can't outsource to cheap labor countries. if medical marijuana was taxed it would represent a significant source of federal state and local revenues and there's no shortage of good science showing that it would help millions of americans with conditions ranging from emmaus to high blood pressure to cancer and by ending a good sized chunk of nixon's failed war on drugs and moving mari

again and again goldwater refuses to do it.out this and what forms a pretty marked contrast for mitt romney is that george romney did this. he broke very assertively with the conservative wing of his party at a moment when that wing was obviously ascentant. here was a man who took a risk to stand up for a cause which he leaved in, which was the civil rights of the party. >> it's fascinating to me that george romney was governor of michigan at the time of the riots. which i'm sure had an impact on his psyche. then when he was running for president, he started on what is basically an urban city tour. he wanted to go to ghettos if you will and take them the media there to highlight the enequities. what an amazing thing for a republican to do. >> is really is. and it was at the time too almost all of his advisers were against it. the big issue at the moment was vietnam, and richard nixon was beginning to separate himself from romney in the polls. and the tactical thing for him to do was to stay in new hampshire, and go after johnso

that i continue to do on conservatism, an interesting thing that i heard from folks of the kind of goldwater, rated era, and a curious about your reaction, i for a lot of resentment towards the tea party from folks in kind of the federal society circles which tend to be more intellectual that tend to be, you know, a different demographic as well because there you get a lot of young conservatives who pride themselves on following the footsteps of goldwater and reagan. and sometimes off the record but here, a fair amount of disdain that's not coming from left. it's coming from this different category of kind of the people who try to hold the torch of william f. buckley, look at these folks as you were saying, some as some on the left look at the tea partiers as these rednecks who are racist, et cetera, et cetera. but whether in your research he found out you encounter in discussion of this kind of different strand of more intellectual conservative thought, goldwater in your opening. i'm just wondering how it really sounds like there's a -- i'm sure this is what we think about that kind of, the

. >> and i am reminded of -- epicycles and i'm reminded everyone says barry goldwater was an extremist until 20 years later, an elder statsman guy and ronald reagan, i keep the cartoon from 1980 depicted reagan in the munich push and have the quotes in my book from civil rights leaders saying he's going to bring back the ku klux klan and the american nazi party. people actually said this and quoted in t"the washington pos." shocking. so this is -- vice versa, people say that about democrats, too. republicans say that, obama's a socialist. we know all this stuff. that's a normal trove of political discourse that is unhelpful. that's right. often can be. however, i think i'm reminded, also, of eugene mccarthy's, shoot the wounded when the battle is over. [ laughter ] and i don't know. i typically have a paradoxiccal view about this problem. and it is a problem in practical terms that the people in the middle, the moderates of both parties, you get the gang of 14 deal in appointments a few year ago. you get budget deals back in the '80s under reagan. in the '90s with clinton and gingrich

was for his father george and his father george was a opponent of barry goldwater who in one thousand six hundred you supported you know who and what i remember george i grew up in michigan he was my governor in one thousand sixty four that george romney said i accept the goldwater nomination but i do not endorse him and he refused to campaign for him and that by the way is an important reason why he was in the nominee in one nine hundred sixty eight and young mitt who was his father's one of his father's closest political allies a brilliant young man there very youngest son there very very close learned his father was too blunt too confrontational and his father alternately lost the big prize too to what extent has has money corrupted the republican party and the conservative movement it seems that the values this whole the traditional value systems even have been set aside in the pursuit but it was not is this is a place where you cannot distinguish the parties that the wash of money through washington has transformed everybody and everything over to the book that one of the villain

i'm reminded of however one said barry goldwater was extremists. until 20 years later from rebels that actually he's an older statements kind of. ronald reagan said he killed paul conrad depicting reagan in the munich that the quote from a book of civil rights leader singer scampering back not just ku klux klan but the american party. people actually said that this quoted in the "washington post." shocking. and people say that about democrats, too. republicans say obama is a socialist and all this stuff. so that's a normal trove of political discourse that's unhelpful, often can be. however, i'm reminded also of eugene mccarthy's great comments. the chief purpose is to shoot the wounded when the battle is over. [laughter] have a typically paradoxical view about this problem and it is a problem in practical terms that the people of the middle, moderates of both parties who get the gang of 14 and the people who get veggie tales back in the 80s under reagan and in the 90s as clinton and gingrich and so forth. when those people disappear and you have t

the defense department made some changes with goldwater nichols. in the old days you'd build bolding air force base right next to anakostia air base. two air stations within 15 seconds of each other. mindless. just mindless. separate runways, separate hangars, separate air controllers, separate security. it was the dumbest thing in the world. thanks to goldwater-nichols, much greater extent we're creating a joint force and achieving a leverage that's critically important. i think there ought to be a new hoover commission as there was i think in the '40s or '50s to look at these institutions and make recommendations. the problems we face in the world are not problems that are going to be solved by one nation. problems like proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, piracy, drug trafficking. it's going to take us working with other countries and the current institutions, the u.n. with its vetoes, nato basically oriented internally rather than externally, and the problems aren't internal today, they're exal

was pretty hard right ronald reagan was pretty hard right there and goldwater was during the peak of daddy coke fred coke's you know funding of the john birch society the coal water would never say john birch society it's the tea party which was largely funded and created by the son of fred koch and songs david and charles koch. has achieved national prominence and. credibility is i guess not too strong a word. how did they pull that off when their father couldn't do it with the john birch society when they're preaching basically the same message. you know basically the you've got craven politicians like mitt romney who are trying to prove that they are more conservative than all of their conservative opponents in the primaries and this guy just panders to them and you have that going on that syndrome going on with politicians all over the country in utah in indiana you have. stable once once once very moderate politicians republicans now having to prove that they've got hair on their chest in terms of the republican right wing and and it doesn't work i mean in most of these cases th

republican quote him as saying i have no respect for the religious right which means that barry goldwater mr conservative would have probably had zero chance in a primary today even though he's the vanguard of so-called conservatism but for me what really matters is on this issue that we can bring people together we can bring conservative people together progressive people together libertarian people together and say we've had enough because i think that's the majority view and i would include a lot of religious people in this say listen i don't want the religious right affecting my bedroom and demonstrate in my book lots of other areas it's huge well when you use a word like reason and it just seems you know how can you be against the exact right for you know compassion i thank you so much i think you. are taking a quick break but up next we've got a tool time that is so crazy that we couldn't wait to share and a libertarian party convention is happening in las vegas right now but could there be libertarians on the ballot. box or is that so much. i mean when you see these. many people. f

. >> throughout the mid-1960s, after the '64 convention, he had this fight with barry goldwater over the direction of the republican party. he demanded again and again in letters that goldwater denounce the extremists who were his most fervent supporters. romney did this knowing that was the direction the republican party was going. i think there's something there's that's hard to imagine mitt romney doing. >> mike, you've covered this guy, does romney have a core from which he will not depart? >> mitt romney did not enter politics with a core belief like some conservatives. george romney said i'm neither a democrat or a republican. he talked with his family and said what should i be. they said republican. when mitt was running in 1994 he was a independent and became a republican. i think he draws from all of those thing, liberal, moderate, republican and as he says severely conservative. would he be the pragmatic moderate as governor of massachusetts with a democratic legislature or much more conservative in the way he's run as in the primaries which might be the case if he has a he

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so in 1965 and 1966 george romney is writing a series of letters back and forth with barry goldwaterr differences by the fathers of the republican party. and george romney is demanding that the extremists give a vow, and again, and again goldwater refuses to do it. what is fascinating to me about this, is that george romney did this. he broke very assertively with the conservative wing of his party at a moment when that wing was very obvious i will ascendant. so here is a man who took a pretty big political risk in order to stand up for a cause that he believed in. theed a advocacy of civil rights in the party. >> george romney was the governor of michigan at the time of the detroit riots, and when he was running for president he took what was basically a urban city tour, and take the media there to highlight the inequities. what an amazing thing for a republican to do. >> it really is. almost all of his advisors were against it. the big issue at the moment was vietnam. and richard nixon was beginning to separate himself from romney in the polls. and the tactical thing for him to do

i think that's a much johnson, it's goldwater. coldwater realizes he doesn't have a chance to win. he does realize that. he hid it in his oral history in the book. he knows that with the martyrdom of john f. kennedy and the ascension to the presidential of lyndon johnson and the admiral job johnson had done in the first year, that the country doesn't have an appetite for change. this is not this moment it and i must say he is quite graceful about it. the two remained friendly throughout the course, and even have a meeting at the oval office in which they say they will not make race an issue in the campaign. knowing that it could be used by either side to divide the country and gain advantage. that's a remarkable moment, you know, where these two, given that the amount of history being made, the two nominees come together and say we will not, you know, we will not manipulate race for political purposes. he also had one of the worst taglines. in your heart he knows he's right which is akin to saying take this medicine because it's good for you. it might not taste good. >> i thank one

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i was just in arizona, where the goldwater family was -- you know, peggy goldwater, co-founder of planned parenthood. it's not republicans, it's the politicians that are right now running for office. and we saw that in the republican primary, unfortunately, where every candidate was trying to outdo each other for being worse on women's health care and unfortunately mr. romney is going right along with them, pledging to not only get rid of planned parenthood, but to end the health care services for 5 million women of this country. a program that was signed into law by richard nixon, a republican president. >> absolutely amazing. and it's just amazing how access to health care has become a partisan issue and women are at the core of this entire thing. and it is about discrimination. would you go so far as to say that the republican party and mitt romney are willing to discriminate against women when it comes to health care? >> again, i really want to distinguish the party from mr. romney. because i think there are a lot of republicans who support planned parenthood, who support women having

he reported that we have contracts amounting to $50,000 and the goldwater in the district -- in the bottled water in the district. it is not an essential expense. one of the proposals is to replace these with filters. so that tap water, even though the water does not made -- does not need a filter in, some people feel more comfortable. we would like to start with our own office in eliminating our bottled water. we do have a filter system. to inspire other floreors and encourage greater participation and then go out into the community. >> can i ask, we asked that the board office remove the water bottles. right when you walk in, there is a dispenser. you go a around the corner, there is our filter. we have asked to have the water bottle -- the one mike that removed. it is not necessary. i did not know if it is a president approval to have it removed. you said you were going to ask the president. let's get rid of it. >> i am glad i did not have to make that tough decision. [laughter] >> i am sorry, before we go on. we have a committee meeting. is that ok? thank you. i wanted to announce the s

>> the short answer to that is barry goldwater. the realignment of the political party -- i mean, when fdr became the party of -- coalition democratic standard bear and combined labor, women sufferage, as well as african-americans moving from south to north, it split through the democratic party and you get strum thurman in 1948 and a long steady road to the erosion of white southern democratic support for the national party because they continue to make gains in civil rights. eisenhower is fairly moderate, even though he's a republican, it suggests that the race question is gaining a national foothold that can't be put in the bottle. by the time you get to the early 1960s that sustained civil rights activism, there's a move towards repudiation of the democratic party and ultimately a strategy emerges and republicans take over the south. >> i wanted to ask you about the political support for progressive causes because i think the article -- an excerpt you write about the early 20th century. >> well, it goes up farther to world war

find a similar question branching off from the goldwater theme. you mentioned the dove white hegemony on the south has claimed will the sword is shift in southern politics. i note that a lot of the things they organized around in the 70s, sort of the christian right, lgb t. wright, the er tv rates were about the masculine come examination of masculinity and i wonder if you could speak towards attention and up for phyllis schlafly which was the barry goldwater. >> i will just say my answer to your question is my column in the washington post today. the partial answer yucatÁn more. >> start with the goldwater because i think this is all well is not politically involved. if you're before the minister of marches should not be involved in politics. but what he has already by 1964 developed and again largely in response to the social gospel into a fear is the rationale for the american way, for a free enterprise capitalism and you have this irony that fundamentalist, part of it creation or genesys was in response to germany sending it again at the embra

find a similar question branching off from the goldwater theme. you mentioned the dove white hegemony on the south has claimed will the sword is shift in southern politics. i note that a lot of the things they organized around in the 70s, sort of the christian right, lgb t. wright, the er tv rates were about the masculine come examination of masculinity and i wonder if you could speak towards attention and up for phyllis schlafly which was the barry goldwater. >> i will just say my answer to your question is my column in the washington post today. the partial answer yucatÁn more. >> start with the goldwater because i think this is all well is not politically involved. if you're before the minister of marches should not be involved in politics. but what he has already by 1964 developed and again largely in response to the social gospel into a fear is the rationale for the american way, for a free enterprise capitalism and you have this irony that fundamentalist, part of it creation or genesys was in response to germany sending it again at the embra

find a similar question branching off from the goldwater theme. you mentioned the dove white hegemony on the south has claimed will the sword is shift in southern politics. i note that a lot of the things they organized around in the 70s, sort of the christian right, lgb t. wright, the er tv rates were about the masculine come examination of masculinity and i wonder if you could speak towards attention and up for phyllis schlafly which was the barry goldwater. >> i will just say my answer to your question is my column in the washington post today. the partial answer yucatÁn more. >> start with the goldwater because i think this is all well is not politically involved. if you're before the minister of marches should not be involved in politics. but what he has already by 1964 developed and again largely in response to the social gospel into a fear is the rationale for the american way, for a free enterprise capitalism and you have this irony that fundamentalist, part of it creation or genesys was in response to germany sending it again at the embra