Not Made In Usa

March, 2009

I was disappointed that you published Aaron Rogers's letter in the December issue. Rogers paints Barry Goldwater as a racist, trigger-happy psycho who was hated by all. Nothing could be fur­ther from the truth. Goldwater. who retired from the Air Force Reserve as a major general, was chief of the Arizona Air National Guard in 194(5, when he demanded the unit be desegregated. Moreover, he supported the NAACP in Arizona and voted for every civil rights bill prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act; he o...