The sharp-tongued, uncompromising conservative patriarch, who philosophically reshaped the Republican Party with his fierce but futile campaign for the presidency in 1964, succumbed to what his family said were natural causes at his Tucson, Arizona, home. Clinton hailed him as a true American original. Indeed, Goldwater was equally coarse and direct toward both the left and the right. He suffered a stroke in 1996 and had Alzheimer's disease.
Passage: Barry Goldwater, 89
The sharp-tongued, uncompromising conservative patriarch, who philosophically reshaped the Republican Party with his fierce but futile campaign for the presidency in 1964, succumbed to what his family said were natural causes at his Tucson, Arizona, home. Clinton hailed him as a true American original. Indeed, Goldwater was equally coarse and direct toward both the left and the right. He suffered a stroke in 1996 and had Alzheimer's disease.
