[re_nortex]

I also campaigned for him [Goldwater] in ‘64, which got me in trouble with Pierre Salinger, who was a friend at the time.

Need I say, ...with friends like that...

Otherwise, thanks for the quick and courteous reply. I'll confess that I wasn't aware of Barry Goldwater's propensity for big spending by the government back in 1964. Compared to the evil Johnson, AuH20 was surely a skinflint. But since I'm not a fan of relativism, that doesn't let him off the hook.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.”

If indeed he was only mouthing those words without conviction, then add Goldwater to the list of CINOs. Thanks to your thought-provoking comments, I'll be doing more reading about the Barry Goldwater of that era.

[editor-surveyor]

Goldwater was a sucker for any military boondoggle that came along, especially any kind of aircraft, and we had some real dogs that got funded.

Salinger was a big Dem, but he wasn’t a liberal. He was for hard money, like Kennedy, and that was his downfall with the establishment. He knew where all the skeletons were too.