With No Apologies:Memoirs of United States Senator Barry M. Goldwater

With No Apologies by Barry Goldwater ^ | Dec 26,1979 | Barry Goldwater

[Amish]

God bless him.

For me, he was the beginning.

[crazyhorse691]

Wish he was still here to give us a hand with the Rats. I liked his definition of Nuclear Option.

[swampfx]

To my mind there is a cause. That cause is freedom. We stand in danger of losing that freedom- not to a foreign tyrant, but to those well intentioned but misguided elitist utopians who stubbornly refuse to profit from errors of the past.

Yes. God bless Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. They truly captured the meaning of the American experiment.

[Barry Goldwater]

Barry Goldwater indeed was a great American.

[docbnj]

Goldwater was great.

My favorite quote (from Conscience of a Conservative):

"A tolerable peace must follow victory over communism."

[Teslas Pigeon]

There are very few elected officials, then or now, who have the guts, integrity or clarity of vision to speak that way. As others have said God bless Barry Goldwater.

[Americanexpat]

I remember when he was running for office and everyone was saying if we vote for Goldwater it was a vote for war.

Democrats were talking about voting for peace.

Next thing I knew I was up to my a** in rice paddies and I wasn't even old enough to vote.

[AntiBurr]

When I cast my first vote (Absentee, posted from Ft. Bragg, N.C.) I was told by my compatriots, "If you vote for Goldwater, we'll still be in Viet Nam in four years." So I guess your trip to the rice paddies was my fault. I missed it by 60 days.

[Teslas Pigeon]

I'm a little too young to remember the signs. It looks like Ebay has lots of Goldwater stuff including this:

But I did not see the lawn signs. If I could find one (a reproduction would do) I'd put it outside of my house today. That should confuse the neighbors.

[ExSoldier]

I do love Barry Goldwater, but bearing in mind that all men have feet of clay I can't help but remember that near the end of his life he came out as a supporter of an assault weapons ban and the Brady Bill. I put that down to the liberalism that usually creeps into most really old folks looking at the next step (Heaven). It does not at all diminish his life in my eyes. Also don't forget that Hillary described her early politics as a Goldwater Republican. What happened there?

[swampfx]

In your heart, you know he's right.

The final paragraph of that Trilateral Commission report is an admission of the commission’s true aims: “Close Trilateral cooperation in keeping the peace, in managing the world economy, in fostering economic development and alleviating world poverty will improve the chances of a smooth and peaceful evolution of the global system.”

What the Trilaterals truly intend is the creation of a world wide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved. They believe the abundant materialism they propose to create will overwhelm existing differences. As managers and creators of the system they will rule the future.

With No Apologies
Barry Goldwater

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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050418-112650-9501r.htm

Power pact meets quietly

By Joseph Curl
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 19,2005

The Trilateral Commission, a secretive association of the world's most powerful private citizens, met behind closed doors in Washington over the weekend with top Bush administration officials, discussing the rise of China, global currency conflicts and the pending referendum before nations of the European Union.

As usual, the press was not allowed in any of the meetings, which included speeches by Vice President Dick Cheney, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, World Bank President-designate Paul Wolfowitz and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

But snippets of their discussions were revealed, including a combative exchange on France and its May 29 referendum on the EU constitution. "Everyone's beating up on France because of the coming referendum," Francois Sauzey, the European press officer for the commission, was overheard to say about commission discussions.

Nearly a dozen national polls in France indicate the referendum would fail. If just one European nation votes against it, the constitution dies. Although the commission does not release information on its discussions, The Washington Times obtained "Trilateral Memorandum No. 8," which deals with the ongoing skirmish between Japan and China.

The memo, topped with the name Akira Kojima, a commission member and chairman of the Japan Center for Economic Research in Tokyo, weighed in on the clash between Japan and China, which boiled over when Japan issued revisionist textbooks to students.

"Japan still has a history textbook approval system, and this misguided system is at the root of these unnecessary misunderstandings and must be abolished," the memo said.

The memo also took aim at Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, "a peculiar character in that he is basically stubborn. If he is criticized for one thing, he intentionally sticks to it and repeats it."

None of the group's members spoke to the press after the meetings. Members include former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, Kennedy administration Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, a national security adviser in the Carter administration.

Far less luminary members refused to talk to a reporter in the hallway of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Maryland Avenue in Southwest, waving off questions and walking hurriedly.

The Trilateral Commission's annual meetings, held in Warsaw in 2004, Seoul in 2003, Washington in 2002 and London in 2001, have inspired conspiracy theories of powerful puppeteers who secretly pull the strings of world powers as they seek to establish a new world order.

The theories are based partly on fact. Mr. Brzezinski once asserted that the commission came up with the idea to create the Group of Seven industrial nations. The commission boasts three U.S. presidents once among its ranks: Bill Clinton, George Bush and Jimmy Carter, who joined in 1973 and moved into the White House three years later.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

I own that book, believe it or not, despite it being older tha me and out of print. I thought that it was an often brutally honest, brilliantly written memoir of the man who defined the conservative movement in America in the 50's and 60's and set the stage for the Reagan Revolution. Barry was one of our political heroes, and the causes he stood for then (strong national defense, anti-communism, broad-based tax cuts, minimal government intrusion in American lives) still sound pretty good to me. The chapters on the savage Republican infighting over the 1964 Presidential nomination remind us how dangerously close the 'Pubbies once came to letting the big-spending left-wingers take over the party (Rockefeller, Javits) and how Goldwaters massive defeat in the general election may have been beside the point since his obtaining the NOMINATION actually saved te party from self-destruction (by keeping the "R"'s from turning into exactly the kind of people that we oppose).

I liked it so much that I actually stole that book from my HS library on the last day of my Senior year.
Ah, the memories!

[lunarbicep]

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[XHogPilot]

Anybody have a list of the best books on Goldwater?

[MirrorField]

"In your guts, you know he's nuts"

As LBJ crowd successfully countered. Aggressive sloganeering isn't anything new, friends.
ObDisclaimer: Above slogan is included purely for historical and informational purposes and should not be taken as opinion for any position on any political figure, deceased or living.