In 1940, Barry went on a 42-day rafting trip down the Green and Colorado Rivers with explorer extraordinaire Norman Nevills. Read Nevills' description of the trip, and look for mentions of "Phoenix merchant and Arizona historian" Barry Goldwater. (Source)

Arizona's Favorite Son appeared on The Tonight Show as a guest of two different hosts: Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. (Source)

Barry Goldwater was a man of many hobbies, and one of them was photography. Scope out some of his awesome shots of his favorite place to be: Arizona. (Source)

During the Watergate affair, Goldwater was one of the select few who went to the Oval Office and told President Nixon that he didn't have enough support, even among his own party, to avoid getting impeached. Nixon resigned the next day. (Source)

In 1937, Goldwater's wife Peggy worked with Margaret Sanger to open Phoenix's first family planning clinic, which later became Planned Parenthood of Arizona. Her cause: she wanted women to have safe, easy access to birth control. Sounds like she shared the senator's views on keeping government out of private lives. (Source)