Fran Ridge:
Barry Goldwater was a businessman and five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953,­65, 1969,­87) and the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election (but lost). An articulate and charismatic figure during the first half of the 1960s, he was known as "Mr. Conservative". Goldwater was a retired Air Force two-star general, and he continued piloting B-52 aircraft until late in his military career. To those who called him "rash", he would remind people of the old saying that "there are no old, bold pilots". He and General Curtis LeMay and "Butch" Blanchard (Roswell fame) were friends.