Arizona: The Goldwater Gold

In the affluent '60s, it almost seems appropriate that presidential candidates are themselves fairly well-heeled. Jack Kennedy, of course, was a millionaire several times over. So is Lyndon Johnson. It has been assumed for some time that Barry Goldwater, too, is a man of wealth, but the Goldwater family has never made public any information about it one way or the other. Last week TIME correspondents put together a balance sheet on Barry's finances. The answer is—yes, Goldwater is a millionaire, and then some.

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