National Trends

Senator Goldwater may or may not become President, but he could well become, if meanwhile he remains faithful to the lesser mission, a kind of John the Baptist against the day the U.S. returns to national sanity. A week after the election, the Senator unloaded a jolting message to the Air War College that cut ruthlessly across the cant and obscurantism of the recent campaign, and produced a conceptual blueprint, including some specifics, for an entirely different approach to U.S. foreign policy.

The theme of Goldwater’s 6,000 word address was “the problem of power, and the uses a nation makes of power.”