This is the fifth time Firing Line has offered a memorial tribute to a favorite

guest (the others being to Allard Lowenstein, Clare Boothe Luce, Michael Harrington,

and Malcolm Muggeridge). Senator Goldwater had died on May 29, at the age of 89, in

his beloved Phoenix. Before showing clips from the two shows taped at his home there

in 1993, Mr. Buckley recalls his old friend and comrade in arms: "He was a considerable

figure in America. A presidential candidate, of course, but a figure who, by espousing so

forcefully conservative ideas, gave political America the sense that we had not been

entirely drowned by the New Deal. And, of course, Goldwater was unremitting in his

opposition to Communism, whose defeat he lived to see ... He was several times on

Firing Line [starting in its first year of existence, with show #16], and we take leave of

him here, sadly and gratefully."