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Thetudied under incomparable donald. About i tell you any more brian, let me introduce the topic of his talk by adapting an opening line of another one of our fellow graduate students used every fall on the first day of the undergraduate history classes the he taught. Now, he would say, all of you will be dead. If how is that for a wake up at 8 00 in the morning . Unless you have published something utterly extraordinary or perpetuated a harmless evil, the odds are nobody will remember you. He would go on to say that even if you do get into that rarefied zone where your name lives on, odds are it will be as a caricature. You will be remembered but possibly for the wrong thing. That brings us to Barry Goldwater. , the then senator from arizona accepted the republican nomination for president in san francisco. Only two things about that moment are remembered. First is a phrase from his speech which goes like this. Extremism in the ....