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===Criticism of the Eisenhower administration=== Goldwater was outspoken about the [[Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower administration]], calling some of the policies of the Eisenhower administration too liberal for a Republican president. "Democrats delighted in pointing out that the junior senator was so headstrong that he had gone out his way to criticize the president of his own party."<ref>{{cite book |title=Goldwater: the man who made a revolution |last=Edwards |first=Lee |publisher=Regnery Publishing |year=1995 |isbn=0895264714 |location=Washington, D.C. |page=[https://archive.org/details/goldwater00leee/page/89 89] |url=https://archive.org/details/goldwater00leee/page/89 }}</ref> There was a Democratic majority in Congress for most of Eisenhower's career and Goldwater felt that [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|President Dwight Eisenhower]] was compromising too much with Democrats in order to get legislation passed. Early on in his career as a senator for Arizona, he criticized the $71.8 billion budget that President Eisenhower sent to Congress, stating "Now, however, I am not so sure. A $71.8 billion budget not only shocks me, but it weakens my faith."<ref>{{cite book|title=Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus |url=https://archive.org/details/beforestormbarry0000perl_k0s0 |url-access=registration |last=Perlstein |first=Rick |publisher=Nation Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-1568584126 |page=[https://archive.org/details/beforestormbarry0000perl_k0s0/page/33 33] |oclc=938852638 }}</ref> Goldwater opposed Eisenhower's pick of [[Earl Warren]] for [[Chief Justice of the United States]]. "The day that Eisenhower appointed Governor Earl Warren of California as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Goldwater did not hesitate to express his misgivings."<ref>Edwards, p. 57</ref> However, Goldwater was present in the United States Senate on March 1, 1954, when Warren was unanimously confirmed,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Senate – March 1, 1954|journal=[[Congressional Record]]|volume=100|issue=2|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office]]|page=2381|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1954-pt2/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1954-pt2-16-1.pdf|access-date=February 18, 2022|archive-date=February 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219011557/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1954-pt2/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1954-pt2-16-1.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> voted in favor of [[Dwight D. Eisenhower Supreme Court candidates|Eisenhower's nomination]] of [[John Marshall Harlan II]] on March 16, 1955,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Senate – March 16, 1955|journal=[[Congressional Record]]|volume=101|issue=3|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office]]|page=3036|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1955-pt3/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1955-pt3-2-1.pdf|access-date=February 18, 2022|archive-date=February 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219040035/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1955-pt3/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1955-pt3-2-1.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> was present for the unanimous nominations of [[William J. Brennan Jr.]] and [[Charles Evans Whittaker]] on March 19, 1957,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Senate – March 19, 1957|journal=[[Congressional Record]]|volume=103|issue=3|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office]]|page=3946|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1957-pt3/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1957-pt3-13-1.pdf|access-date=February 18, 2022|archive-date=February 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219043638/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1957-pt3/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1957-pt3-13-1.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> and voted in favor of the nomination of [[Potter Stewart]] on May 5, 1959.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Senate – May 5, 1959|journal=[[Congressional Record]]|volume=105|issue=6|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office]]|page=7472|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1959-pt6/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1959-pt6-4-1.pdf|access-date=February 18, 2022|archive-date=February 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219045119/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1959-pt6/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1959-pt6-4-1.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
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