A reporter was listening to Barry Goldwater give his "extremism/vice" speech at the 1964 GOP convention, and whispered to a buddy: "My God. He's going to run as Barry Goldwater." ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. Limiting 'big government' spending has become the new mantra of the right. Since the 1960s, and right up to ...

Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee, called to privatize TVA, while President Lyndon Johnson pledged not to sell. Throngs of thousands of supporters turned out for visits from ...

In today’s political climate, conspiracy theories are commonplace. But they’re nothing new. In the 1960s, the John Birch ...

"I have not left the Republican Party; the Republican Party has left me," says a reader who is voting against Donald Trump.

In light of big conservative wins across the country in the election this week, students and faculty reassess how much the Republican Party has shifted from the Reagan-era conservative movement to ...

The last time a Democratic presidential nominee won Idaho was 60 years ago, when Lyndon Johnson beat Republican Barry Goldwater by a narrow margin of just over 5,300 votes. The Associated Press ...

Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater was running for president and Republicans from all over the country met at the Cow Palace in California for the GOP National Convention. Goldwater was a businessman ...