Summary: With the presidential candidacy of Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964, the conservative movement achieved national prominence. Historian Dan Carter places John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign in the context of the American conservative movement. http://www.pbs.org/amex/presidents Voices: Dan T. Carter, historian Ronald Reagan (archival), Republican Party spokesman Edmund Morris, Ronald Reagan biographer Richard Norton Smith, former director, Reagan Library George F. Will, columnnist Pat Buchanan (archival), Republican presidential candidate John Robert Greene, presidential historian Miles Neff, podcast narration Produced by: Ravi Jain Director of New Media: Maria Daniels American Experience is produced by WGBH Boston. Major funding for American Experience is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Major corporate funding is provided by Liberty Mutual. Additional funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by public television viewers.
