John Dean on Pure Goldwater

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John Dean on Pure Goldwater

Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer interviews John Dean about “Pure Goldwater,” his new collaboration with the late senator’s son. The book is a reminder that American conservatism has drifted far from its original heading.

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By broadbrush, July 24, 2008 at 6:48 pm Link to this comment
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Goldwater’s extremist attitude toward the Soviet Union engendered the ” Daisy ” add. His advocacy of the use of nuclear weapons scared the bejusus out of his contemporaries.

Extremism in the defense of liberty if not a vice is no virtue when the destiny of the world is at stake.

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