“AuH2O in ‘64” was a clever campaign bumper sticker for Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater (1909-1998). The Au and H20 are the chemical symbols for gold and water. The slogan was catchy but made little ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Republicans gathered in Milwaukee this week to officially nominate Donald Trump for president, a continuation of the GOP's ...

In San Francisco, Barry Goldwater threw out a dare to his party’s dissidents. “Anyone who joins us in all sincerity, we welcome,” said Goldwater in his acceptance speech. “Those who do not care for ...

was hostile to Social Security and civil rights and provocative toward the Soviet Union. After securing the Republican nomination by narrowly defeating Rockefeller in the California primary, Goldwater ...

If it was not a new Republican Party that emerged from San Francisco’s Cow Palace last week, it was at least a much different one. It spoke with the accents of small-town America. Its muscle came no ...

Privatization of the Tennessee Valley Authority became a central theme for Tennessee voters as Republican and Democratic presidential candidates stopped in Tennessee during the 1964 presidential ...