This is the Cato Daily Podcast. I'm Caleb Brown.

C.C. Goldwater was just five years old when her grandfather Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater challenged

Lyndon Johnson for the presidency. She's now the executive producer of the

HBO documentary Mr. Conservative Goldwater on Goldwater soon to be released on DVD. It chronicles

Senator Goldwater's lifetimes and political legacy. Ms Goldwater has also

produced a new edition of her grandfather's The Conscience of a

Conservative. The 1960 book that sold more

than 3 million copies.

Ms Goldwater spoke to the Cato Institute July 12th.

In your

understanding of your grandfather's politics was one of the things that you really wanted to

accomplish. What was surprising as you tried to understand his politics better?

You know I knew him so one-dimensional as a grandfather.

I knew him as somebody that knew that I loved Purple and I, you know, I, my birthday was this day and and and various parts of my personal life but I really

I never quite understood the civil rights position I never quite understood his other positions that he took politically.

I didn't know as much about the military side of his life and how much the world of aviation

meant to him. I knew photography was important because he'd have a

dark room in his house and he'd actually develop film there. So I think that the main

objective for me to do this film was to show people who Barry Goldwater was from a family perspective, but be fair and equal and make sure that people really saw Barry Goldwater as he truly was and

not as what a lot of people perceive him to be. And the main thing is that he probably has more of a following now

than he does, then he did then, definitely

when he was in 64, he was a warmonger and he was going to blow up the world and that was the farthest thing from what he was about.

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