S*1274 Session 112 (1997-1998)
S*1274 Resolution, By Courson, Alexander, Anderson, Branton, Bryan, Cork,
Courtney, Drummond, Elliott, Fair, Ford, Giese, Glover, Gregory, Grooms, Hayes,
Holland, Hutto, Jackson, Land, Lander, Leatherman, Leventis, Martin, Matthews,
McConnell, McGill, Mescher, Moore, O'Dell, Passailaigue, Patterson, Peeler,
Rankin, Ravenel, Reese, Russell, Ryberg, Saleeby, Setzler, Short, J.V. Smith,
Thomas, Waldrep, Washington and Wilson
A SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE SYMPATHY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE TO
THE FAMILY AND MANY FRIENDS OF THE HONORABLE BARRY M. GOLDWATER, A FIVE-TERM
UNITED STATES SENATOR AND FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, UPON HIS DEATH.
06/02/98 Senate Introduced and adopted SJ-20
A SENATE RESOLUTION
EXPRESSING THE SYMPATHY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE
SENATE TO THE FAMILY AND MANY FRIENDS OF THE
HONORABLE BARRY M. GOLDWATER, A FIVE-TERM
UNITED STATES SENATOR AND FORMER PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE, UPON HIS DEATH.
Whereas, the members of the Senate were saddened to learn of the
passing on Friday, May 29, 1998, of the Honorable Barry M.
Goldwater of Paradise Valley, Arizona, a five-term United States
Senator and former presidential candidate; and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater was born on January 1, 1909, in
Phoenix, Arizona, the eldest son of Baron and Josephine Williams
Goldwater; and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater graduated Staunton Military Academy
(Virginia) at the top of his class and enrolled as a freshman at the
University of Arizona in the fall of 1928, but tragically his father died
the next spring, and Senator Goldwater left college to work in the
family store, M. Goldwater & Sons; and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater became a highly successful store
manager with a gift for recognizing the sales potential of an offbeat
item and was also touted for initiating a five-day work week and
greatly improving employee fringe benefits; and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater took a keen interest in learning to fly
airplanes and would rise before dawn to be at the Phoenix airstrip by
daybreak; and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater was assigned to the Ferry Command
during World War II, a unit of pilots assigned to deliver supplies to
war zones all over the world; and
Whereas, Mr. Goldwater became involved in a municipal reform
movement in Phoenix that prompted him to run for the Phoenix City
Council in 1949; and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater won a hotly contested United States
Senate race in 1952 against Democrat and majority leader of the
Senate, Ernest W. McFarland; and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater denounced foreign aid, high taxes,
unbalanced budgets and anything that threatened individuals or free
enterprise and in result was handily reelected in 1958 and became in
great demand as speaker in Republican gatherings across the nation;
and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater was named chairman of the Republican
Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1960, visited every state,
appeared at dozens of party conventions and gatherings and became
a figure of national prominence and popularity that made him the
Republican nominee for president in 1964; and
Whereas, South Carolina was uniquely involved in his historic
nomination in that Senator Goldwater was first nominated for
President by State Party Chairman Greg Shorey in 1960 at the
Chicago National Convention, South Carolina sent a large delegation
to the National Draft Goldwater Rally on July 4, 1963, at the
Washington National Guard Armory; State Party Chairman Drake
Edens in 1964 at the San Francisco National Convention announced
the South Carolina Delegation vote which produced the majority
ensuring the Goldwater nomination; and Senator Goldwater was the
first nominee of his party to carry South Carolina in the Twentieth
Century with the leadership of former Governor James F. Byrnes,
Senator Strom Thurmond, Congressman Albert W. Watson, and
former State Representatives Floyd Spence and Arthur Ravenel; and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater's call for peace through military strength
was fulfilled by President Reagan leading to a Cold War victory by
the implosion of the Soviet Union as predicted by Senator Goldwater;
and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater lost the 1964 presidential bid to Lyndon
Johnson but set the stage for a conservative revolution that would
would elect Ronald Reagan into the White House sixteen years later;
and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater launched the political career of the
politically inexperienced Ronald Reagan in 1964 after Reagan
delivered a speech on behalf Mr. Goldwater that would catupult him
into the California governor's mansion in 1967 and the White House
in 1981; and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater was acknowleged as the champion of
conservatism and a founder of a conservative movement that became
a vital element in mainstream Republican thinking in the late
twentieth century; and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater was solely responsible for unanimous
Senate passage of the Defense Department Reorganization Act of
1986, the last major achievement of his political career and a much
needed, paramount piece of legislation that streamlined command
channels at the Pentagon; and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater, by the time of his retirement from the
United States Senate in 1986 after thirty years of service, became
known as "The Grand Old Man of the Republican Party";
and
Whereas, Senator Goldwater was known as a man of true and
unblemished personal integrity who championed individualism and
triggered a new philosophy that included the reduction of overall
federal spending and a smaller federal government. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate:
That the members of the Senate of the State of South Carolina, by
this resolution, publicly express sympathy to the family and many
friends of the Honorable Barry M. Goldwater, a five-term United
States Senator and former presidential candidate, upon his death.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to
the family of the Honorable Barry M. Goldwater.
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