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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

“extremism in the defense of liberty”-vice or virtue?

Sixty years ago today, delegates to the Republican National Convention selected Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater as the party's nominee for President.

The choice of ultra-conservative Goldwater was in many ways a reaction to the domestic agenda of civil rights and public welfare put forward by incumbent President Lyndon Johnson.

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