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==Legacy== ===Buildings and monuments=== [[File:Barry Goldwater Statuary Hall by Gage Skidmore.jpg|right|thumb|[[Barry Goldwater (Fellows)|Barry Goldwater statue]] in [[National Statuary Hall]] in Washington, D.C.]] Among the buildings and monuments named after Barry Goldwater are the Barry M. Goldwater Terminal at [[Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport]], Goldwater Memorial Park<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phoenixmarkettrends.com/topics/Barry+Goldwater+Memorial+in+PV |title=Barry Goldwater Memorial in PV |publisher=Phoenixmarkettrends.com |date=March 4, 2008 |access-date=March 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330102613/http://www.phoenixmarkettrends.com/topics/Barry%2BGoldwater%2BMemorial%2Bin%2BPV |archive-date=March 30, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in [[Paradise Valley, Arizona]], the Barry Goldwater Air Force Academy Visitor Center at the [[United States Air Force Academy]], and [[Barry Goldwater High School]] in northern Phoenix. In 2010, former Arizona Attorney General [[Grant Woods (attorney)|Grant Woods]], himself a Goldwater scholar and supporter, founded the [[Goldwater Women's Tennis Classic]] Tournament to be held annually at the [[Phoenix Country Club]] in Phoenix.<ref name="Goldwater Women's Classic">{{cite web|title=Goldwater Women's Classic|url=http://www.phoenixcc.org/club/scripts/section/section.asp?NS=GWC|publisher=Phoenix Country Club|access-date=July 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425134316/http://www.phoenixcc.org/club/scripts/section/section.asp?NS=GWC|archive-date=April 25, 2012}}</ref> On February 11, 2015, a [[Barry Goldwater (Fellows)|statue of Goldwater]] by [[Deborah Copenhaver Fellows]] was unveiled by U.S. House and Senate leaders at a dedication ceremony in [[National Statuary Hall]] of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.speaker.gov/press-release/statue-arizona-s-barry-m-goldwater-dedicated-us-capitol|title=Statue of Arizona's Barry M. Goldwater Dedicated at the U.S. Capitol|date=February 11, 2015|access-date=June 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626105516/http://m.speaker.gov/press-release/statue-arizona-s-barry-m-goldwater-dedicated-us-capitol|archive-date=June 26, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Barry Goldwater Peak is the highest peak in the [[White Tank Mountains]].<ref>{{cite GNIS|2070658|Barry Goldwater Peak}}</ref> ===Goldwater Scholarship=== The [[Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship]] and Excellence in Education Program was established by Congress in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|title=Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program|url=http://www.act.org/goldwater/|publisher=ACT, Inc|access-date=August 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022220814/http://www.act.org/goldwater/|archive-date=October 22, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its goal is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue careers in these fields. The Scholarship is widely considered the most prestigious award in the U.S. conferred upon undergraduates studying the sciences. It is awarded to about 300 students (college sophomores and juniors) nationwide in the amount of $7,500 per academic year (for their senior year, or junior and senior years).<ref>{{cite web|title=Bulletin of Information for the 2013–2014 Competition|url=http://www.act.org/goldwater/yybull.html|publisher=Goldwater Scholarship Program|access-date=August 21, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916021418/http://www.act.org/goldwater/yybull.html|archive-date=September 16, 2008}}</ref> It honors Goldwater's keen interest in science and technology. ===Documentary=== Goldwater's granddaughter, CC Goldwater, has co-produced with longtime friend and [[independent film]] producer [[Tani L. Cohen]] a documentary on Goldwater's life, ''Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater'', first shown on [[HBO]] on September 18, 2006.<ref>{{citation | first = Deborah | last = Solomon | newspaper = [[The New York Times]] | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/magazine/27wwln_q4.html | title = Goldwater Girl | type = interview with CC Goldwater | date = August 27, 2006 | access-date = January 1, 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090425025919/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/magazine/27wwln_q4.html | archive-date = April 25, 2009 }}</ref> ===In popular culture=== In his song "[[Another Side of Bob Dylan|I Shall Be Free No. 10]]", [[Bob Dylan]] refers to Goldwater: "I'm liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door and marry my daughter, you must think I'm crazy."<ref>{{cite book |title= Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith |last= Beckwith |first= Francis J.| year= 2015 |publisher= [[Cambridge University Press]] |location=New York |isbn=978-1107112728 |page= 172 }}</ref> In the 1965 film ''[[The Bedford Incident]]'', the actor [[Richard Widmark]] playing the film's antagonist, Captain Eric Finlander of the fictional destroyer USS ''Bedford'', modelled his character's mannerisms and rhetorical style after Goldwater.<ref>Whitfield, ''The Culture of the Cold War'', 1996 pp. 217–218</ref>
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