At age 80, and two years retired, Senator Goldwater hasn't lost his savor. In this splendid session, his old friend asks him to "take a fix on issues that concerned conservatives in 1964, to ask how they look to us now, 25 years later." The first of these issues is civil rights: "You voted with 21 other senators against the civil-rights bill. Do you have reasons to regret that vote?" BG: "I still agree with my vote, that you have the right to rent your house to whoever you damn please-black, white, green, or purple." They go on from there to immigration and the effects of different ethnic groups ("Well, having said what I've said on this, I'm not worried"), to the Supreme Court, to the Soviet Union ("I do think, as old as I am, I'm going to live to see the day when there's a freer economic system in the Soviet Union than they have today.").