
By Philip Rucker | The Washington Post
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign often draws comparisons to the 1964 White House bid of Barry Goldwater — a conservative icon who clashed with the Republican establishment but galvanized grassroots activists to secure the party’s nomination, only to suffer a landslide loss in the general election.
Trump hopes to bask in the glow of the Goldwater legacy when he holds a fundraiser Saturday at the late Arizona senator’s landmark estate in Paradise Valley — the same home, in a wealthy enclave of Phoenix, from which Goldwater launched his presidential campaign a half-century ago.
But one important person is queasy about Trump’s plans to campaign there: Goldwater’s widow.