An Air Force pilot, and a longtime US senator from Arizona; he was at the receiving end of a drubbing in the 1964 presidential election, in which the LBJ campaign painted him as some sort of Dr. Strangelove nutjob. Author of such books as The Conscience of a Conservative, he ceased being his party's conscience when a new, thuggish, generation came to power in the Ronald Reagan years. He and The Missus were pro-choice, and big supporters of Planned Parenthood.