Barry Goldwater

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In the summer of 1974 the country was in the midst of the agony of realizing that Richard M. Nixon had committed acts that qualified as the "high crimes and misdeameanors" that were required for the impeachment and removal of a President of the United States.

Even many of us who would never have dreamed of voting for Nixon were reluctant to take that draconian action against him. “What will it do to the country?” In my own case I quit worrying about whether it was the right thing to do when Barry Goldwater, AKA Mr. Conservative, said: "That son-of-a-bitch has got to go." That was a "statement contrary to presumed bias" which is the kind of thing to which I give high credibility.

Mr.Goldwater took some other difficult positions which qualified him as a man who would “do to ride the river with.”
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